I read the article What’s Your Kids’ Wage Gap? Boys Paid More, More Profitably the other day. I have 3 sons. My husband does much of our housework. My sons are learning to do all form of chores, and are not paid an allowance.

None of the information about girls and boys doing chores, being paid (more or less), working inside/outside the home, etc. bothered me as I know my husband and I are teaching our boys the right things. What got me? Well, how about this:

Pew found that 37% of men want stay-at-home wives, compared to 11% of women who wanted to be stay-at-home wives.

 37% of men want stay-at-home wives? Ok, I could still see my way to a blissful statement like “to each his own”, until I then read:

One of the systemic issues we face is that men (overwhelmingly the case, see below) who hold these attitudes are seriously over-represented in the very places where we need change the most — legislatures and the corporate world. For example, research conducted by the Families and Work Institute revealed that 75 percent of 1,200 male executives men surveyed had stay-at-home wives.

75% of male executives have stay-at-home wives? Out of curiosity, how many of the remaining 25% share equally the household and child care with their spouses?

But wait, it gets worse…

Employed husbands in traditional marriages, compared to those in modern marriages, tend to (a) view the presence of women in the workplace unfavorably, (b) perceive that organizations with higher numbers of female employees are operating less smoothly, (c) find organizations with female leaders as relatively unattractive, and (d) deny, more frequently, qualified female employees opportunities for promotion.

So I started reading an article about helping our young sons become better men, learning their value is neither greater nor less than a woman.

But that is not a message they will hear reinforced. Not when 75% of men have stay-at-home wives, and 37% want them.

My husband and I can address what chores my sons do. We can and do talk to them about what others perceive as gender-appropriate chores.

But who, among the 85% of Fortune 1000 companies with all-male boards will do the same for our corporate leaders? Who is teaching the male executives to change this same wage gap in the workplace?