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In the article, "Why Moms Time is Different from Dads Time," there is a discussion of how dads are using there time and how moms use there time in the modern household.  The author is showing what men do in the house and what women do in the house.

In the passage, the author, Ellen Weinstein, says, "She didn't really care that her husband did the dishes after dinner. Sure, it was swell of him, and she had friends whose husbands did less. But what she really wanted, at that point in her day, was for her husband to volunteer to put the kids to bed."  In households, as long as kids are present, the wives like when the husbands help with the children. When husbands are doing things to try to please the wives, sometimes can not be so pleasing.

The article also says, "...which asks thousands of Americans annually to chronicle how they spend their days—men and women now work roughly the same number of hours a week (though men work more paid hours, and women more unpaid)."  In the text, you see that men usually work more weekly hours than women do.  This means that wives spend more time at home doing tasks like taking out the trash and doing the dishes.  Husbands should do there part in helping with the children.

In the middle of the discussion, the author writes, " Women may work fewer paid hours than men, but because they devote nearly twice as much time to family care (housework, child care, shopping), it doesn't look to women like their husbands are sharing the load evenly when they're all home together."  The men in the households work more so they become tired faster at home.  Wives are at home more or out running around shopping and get tired just as well.  This becomes a problem because both husband and wife do not understand how tired each one is.

This connects to gender roles by showing what point of view you get from females and males.  Males see wives and home and just around and about while they are at work bringing in the money.  Females see husbands at work and away from the house.  The wives see that the husbands are away more resulting in less time helping around the house and with children in the house.

In conclusion, seeing what differences between moms and dads, households seem to work out in ways you can not imagine unless you have been there and done that.  How will you spend your time as a mother or a father?