I'm not talking about the whah, whah, whah of my adorable newborn son, but the whah, whah, whah of the new mothers I've encountered.

NPR: Think Partnered Parenting Is Hard? Try Going Solo

The promise of equality that this generation of new mums thought their feminist mothers had secured for them is an illusion, says Rebecca Asher, a broadcast journalist with a toddling son.

ECONOMIST: Who looks after the children?