Clint Greagen, 40, went part-time at work after his first son was born because his wife Tania was forging a successful career as a physiotherapist.
There are now 10 times as many stay-at-home dads in the UK than there were a decade ago, according to research from Aviva last year, which found that 1.4 million men were now the primary carer in their households.
Despite this, women still do 32 hours of childcare and housework a week, compared to men who do 17 hours, the Pew Research Centre found in 2011, which also found that men did more hours of paid work than women, on average.
Clint’s advice to women who want men to share the household workload a bit more is to give them time and space to learn what for many men are new skills.
"Women have to realise that men are just as capable of feeding a baby and mopping a floor but in many cases are simply unpractised.
"They need support and a certain amount of time, depending on the task, to develop the skills their wives have practised for years."
"It’s like anything, you have to develop skills… If I haven’t picked up a cricket bat in a while and I go out to face someone, I’m not going to be any good.
"When some dads first start taking on the majority of the housework they haven’t done much of it before they find it a bit tougher, it’s going to take some time before they get the hang of it."
This is because, he says, boys are not encouraged to develop domestic skills as much as girls are growing up - but, if women are prepared to give men the space they need to practise, they will easily pick up the skills they need.
"If a man’s taking on more domestic responsibility there has to be some time given and some lee-way to build those domestic skills."
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