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Stranger scolds me for neglecting my non-existent children for work
A taxi driver’s tirade gives the writer an insight into how some men expect working mums to behave.
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Women spend 47 minutes more on housework on average than men each day in the US, and that is not including childcare, of which women also do far more.
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Aiyoh, why are you leaving work so late when you need to wake up early to get your children and breakfast ready in the morning, asked a cabby within seconds of meeting me for the first time in his car at almost midnight.
I didn’t know that the price of a ride included an instant nuclear family – which did not exist for me outside of the cabby’s mind – and that I was disappointing family, society and all of mankind just by breathing and being female.
