'So many of the calls come to them, even though they're in kind of very demanding jobs they've told the schools to call their children's fathers,' said Kristy Buzard, an associate professor of economics at Syracuse University in New York. When a group of researchers were chatting about the pressures of being working mothers, they realized they all had one frustration in common: their kids' schools always called the moms - not the dads - if one of their kids got sick or some other problem arose.
The Current 8:32 Why schools are more likely to call moms when a kid gets sick
