With all the work that has been done to push women's equality forward, why are modern progressive couples falling back into traditional gender roles once they have children? Why do women do so much more in the home than men? Lockman looks at why the promised true domestic partnership didn't come to pass for modern married dual-income households.

Be aware that All the Rage is a book that will get you all riled up. Instead of looking at all marriages, Lockman zeroed in on progressive dual-income households where the domestic labor was equally split before children. Yet in nearly every case, once the couple has a child, they fall back into traditional gender roles, with the wife taking on disproportionately more of the childrearing responsibilities. Hearing other women's stories, I felt validated in my own frustrations and enraged that we haven't made more progress toward equality. But it also helped me understand why progress toward equality can be frustratingly slow; it's hard not to slip back into the patterns we have seen modeled for us our entire lives.