When a woman claims she has 'studied parenting' in this day and age you can bet she is going to write a very sexist article that is anti-men!
All the books and all the studying in the world cannot prepare new parents for 'parenting'. It's a part of life that is different for every single parent within every single family. It is probably fairly miraculous that so many families actually survive the process of parenting.
In some the Mom turns out to be the rock that holds it together, in some its the Dad. If the children are really lucky they see both parents as equal contributors to a happy and balanced childhood where, however unequal the division of household chores may appear to be, the main anti-Dad point in McDonald's piece, both parents are grown up enough to make parenting about the whole family and not just about martyred feminists like McDonald. She completely misses the most important part of any good parenting. Accepting full responsibility for having a family.