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The supermom trap: Do involved dads erode moms' self‐competence?

Increasingly, husbands have been expected to share equally in the task of childrearing, especially when their wives are employed. This study examined reactions to these changes in a sample of 78 dual-earner couples with 8-month-old infants. When wives felt that their husbands were skillful caregivers, greater husbands’ contribution to caregiving was associated with lower self-competence among wives. In contrast, wives’ caregiving behavior was unrelated to their husbands’ self-competence. None of these effects emerged for the self-liking component of self-esteem. Thus, despite increasingly egalitarian sex roles, employed mothers (but not their husbands) seem to be trapped between their desire for help with childrearing and the threat to their personal competence posed by failure to meet socially constructed ideals of motherhood. The women’s liberation movement ushered in a new egalitarianism wherein women of all stripes were encouraged to join the workforce. Husbands of these women have been expected to share in the task of childrearing. A corollary, albeit unstated, assumption was that employed mothers would welcome fathers’ involvement in caregiving, as this would enable them to devote much needed time to their careers. The research reported in this article represents a partial test of this corollary assumption. In particular, recognizing that child care is an important source of selfcompetence for mothers, we ask if sharing child care duties with fathers might decrease mothers’ feelings of self-competence. We set