Stephen marche in the article Home Economics ; The Link Between Work Life Balance And Income Equality talks about the standard American family always having to work leaving little to no time for family entertainment. Marche Compares the domestic lifestyle to a behind tv show series you wonder how will you make this happen but along the way there’s tears and also laughter but at the end of the day the only important thing is that everyone is fed and has clothes on their back. No matter whether the the household income came from the father working and the mother staying at home or vice versa. It doesn’t matter who brings the money home as long as the family has the necessary things they need. He also confessed how over the years things have changed. Decades ago there was gender roles. It was a woman’s job to take care of her kids and the responsibility that needed to be done at the house. While the men were the head of household because they provided the income for the family. Men would also make the desicion around the house. But over the years things have changed there are no longer gender roles things have changed now ” the family has changed and is further changing, while at work, patriachy survives as a kind of anachronistic holdover, like daylight savings or summer vacation”. In his article he talks about the Pew study. The pew study is a study that asks cohabitating males and female couples who made the decisions at the house. The results of the study were ” in 26% of households, the man; well and 43% of households the woman did. Marche talks about how woman are equal to men when it comes to jobs. He states that out of the fithteen fastest growing jobs categories in the United States 13 are dominated by woman”