In her study of 360 elementary students (and at least one parent of each student), University of B.C. psychologist Toni Schmader discovered that fathers who help with the household cooking and cleaning are more likely to raise daughters who may go on to choose a career rather than be a stay-at-home mom. “Girls may be looking at their father not as a model for who they could be, but as a model for who they could be with,” Schmader said. Her research suggests that a father who contributes equally to household chores means his daughter will likely choose a spouse who will share diaper duty.