Househusbands are termed as those men who stay home while their wives go to work. In this setting, conversely, men survive on their wives' incomes instead.
According to the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, the first known use of the term house husband was registered in 1858, meaning a man who does housekeeping often while his spouse or partner earns family.
The househusbands usually perform activities that women traditionally do. Despite the past when men were ridiculed with unsolicited advisories for performing such roles, the house husband or stay-home dads are now a new norm that is trending across the globe.
For all time, women have been known for their gender roles and dubbed the 'keepers of the family and babysitters' the era seem to come with a paradigm of shift changing and transitioning women as breadwinners and husbands as housekeepers.
With the advent of the modern era and changing lifestyles triggered by the industrial revolution, women where were brought in to contribute to the production of services and labour. The house husbands are too becoming a trend as a result.
More than previous, young fathers are staying home as househusbands doing all the housework that would have been done by the wives, whose work ranges from bathing babies, overlooking chores and babies during the day, changing babies' naps, cleaning their poops and pees and other necessary baby cares.
Studies had indicated that it's only now that househusbands are catching up with the trend of recent years with little public backlash and criticism among society members like it has been in the past years when women were vetted for particular gender roles.
The Philippine Statistics Authority released in 2019 reported that about 56 per cent of the 2.3 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) recruited were made up of women.
Indisputably, there is an increasing disparity between women and men in the workplace. Still, some countries where women's rights and education levels correspond have seen changing these narratives changing and therefore creating new social stereotypes.
In some instances of countries like the U.S, whose economies are having constant labour trends, women are outnumbering men in the workforce for the first time since 2010, according to the country's labour statistics.
Furthermore, the Pew Research Center indicates that the number of househusbands between 1989 and 2016 had almost doubled from 4% to 7%.
The PRC shows the number of househusbands has remained unchanged, with a slight decrease from 28% in 1989 to 27% in 2016.
In Seoul, the figures indicated there were 190,000 househusbands, the highest record of the number since 2003.
Either way, official statistics in the U.S found out the number of mothers staying home has reduced to only two million women 'looking after their families, a fall of nearly one million since 1993.
According to a joint study by Valeria Vinnik and Y. Romayikina, the professors from the Saratov State University in Russia indicated that the primary cause of the trend goes far back to the development of women's rights to the advent of the Second World War when women had to replace men in the factories.
The study also found out the level of women's education in the last 50 years is attributed to having caused the emergence of stereotypes.
According to the report, however, the multiple househusbands interviewed shown did not contend with their stereotype in the lens that society perceives them.
"Due to gender stereotypes, society does not approve of the phenomenon of a house husband. They frequently report that their roles are misunderstood," the report writes in part.
"A man is usually presented as a head of a family, a front runner, and a breadwinner. Of course, an image varies depending on the time and the country. The position of a housewife is now viewed as a job, but househusbands need the same recognition. They want to be fully appreciated as good fathers and partners. Nevertheless, the opinion of the older generation is predominantly stereotypical and narrow-minded," the report added.