With a growing number of modern households that consist of two fathers and with many wives out-earning their husbands, perhaps the idea that the woman does it all, all the time, will go the way of the anti-chloroform argument and one day seem quaintly old-fashioned.
Whereas daughters and wives once stayed at home to clean, cook and care for husbands, children and ageing parents, modern French women expect a life outside the home.