I recommend you read the full article here:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/executive-style/culture/the-invisible-men-20100616-yfz8.html

I encourage you to leave a comment there as well as here.

The bulk of it is as follows:

When personal trainer, husband and father-of-two John Bonasera walks in the door following a fractured night’s sleep on the couch and a 13-hour workday, a complaint is the last thing to leave his lips. But it’s not out of personal choice, says the oft-harried 37-year-old. The verbal restraint is borne more from a desire for self-preservation.

Welcome, say our tired husbands and fathers, to the age of the neglected male. Harried and hurrying from school drop-offs to breakfast meetings before rushing home for baby’s bath time, these tired and tetchy men are left wondering why – unlike their hard-working female partners – they are failing to receive what they believe to be rightful recognition for their efforts. Take a rudimentary glance at the evidence, they urge.

Ladies, these men may have a point.

The media devotes significant coverage to the complex life of the modern family woman and her constant juggle between familial, work and domestic responsibilities, but precious little to how men manage the load. Yet figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics bear out a startlingly even spread of domestic and professional labour: a 2006 study into how Australians used their time found that men spent a combined average (over seven days) of 11.44 hours per day performing professional, childcare and domestic tasks. And women? They came in at a combined average of 11.35 hours – nine minutes less than the men.

Figures aside, what these men are saying is that they too would appreciate the odd tribute; that it’s not a question of who does more, but more a question of unheard voices

“The best advice is, ‘Don’t say you’re tired, don’t complain.’ Because, you know, what’s the point?” says Troy Jones, a 33-year-old father of two young children who works in the film and advertising industries. Having interviewed dozens of men during the creation of a series of short films designed to provide information and support to first-time fathers, Jones says the overwhelming majority of male participants struggled with feelings of invisibility, and the belief that their roles in family and society were undervalued or, in some cases, not valued at all.

The conclusion:

“I think the entire basis of happiness is this innate desire to be heard and have your opinions recognised,” ventures Troy Jones. “For blokes in Australia, the way to be tough is to just soldier on and be eternally okay with everything. But that’s not the path to happiness. Or mental stability.”