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Think your man doesn't pull his weight at home? Maybe it's YOUR fault - Daily Mail

When Rebecca Asher had a baby, her relationship with her husband suffered. She became resentful of her new role as a housewife, but critical if her husband tried to help. Here, in an extract from her book, Shattered, the former editor of Woman’s Hour describes how women can be their own worst enemies. Today, women outperform men at school and university. They make a success of their early careers and enter into relationships on their own terms. So why then, once children come along, do so many women end up ‘holding the baby’, to the detriment of everything else in their lives, while their partners’ lives seem to carry on as before — relatively free of childcare responsibilities. Could women be their own worst enemies when it comes to the balance of modern family life. There is a photograph of me holding my son when he is two months old. A few months later, I appraise myself in the landing mirror on the return leg from a night feed. I had a decent job behind the scenes in television that, though it didn’t make me rich or powerful, allowed me to think of myself as an independent, capable woman and gave me just enough cash and free time to live a varied and spontaneous existence. I fretted about the inevitable compromises to my life and relationship with my husband that having a child would bring.