The more women earn, the more housework they do: inside the paradox a Wharton economist calls ‘an existential problem for men’

He doesn’t know where the toilet paper is. He doesn’t know who the pediatrician is. He has never planned a meal, started a load of laundry, or thought about what time school pickup is. And somehow, none of that is considered a problem. Weaponized incompetence, or the practice of being so helpless that the labor simply falls on someone else, has long been a feature of domestic life.

But Wharton economist Corinne Low has spent years researching the data proving what many women have quietly suspected...