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Kinda interesting…the headline blares away about women spending twice as much time doing household chores as the men, in the land down under. But inside the guts of the story you see the issue has more to do with an informal gender-identity with regard to the chores, with her doing the inside ones and him doing the outside ones.
The time she spends on the inside-ones is carefully computed, relative to the time he spends helping her out…whereas the manly lawncare is just…done.
Australian Bureau of Statistics social trends report finds women doing double the housework
WOMEN are still doing almost twice the amount of household work as men but at least the males are pulling their weight outside, a report on social trends says.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its quarterly snapshot of Australain society and it shows households have allocated “his and her” chores.
Between 1992 and 2006, the average time men spent on household work rose by an hour and 25 minutes to 18 hours and 20 minutes a week.
Despite woman spending more hours in the workplace, they are doing about the same amount of time on household work in 2006 – an average of 33 hours and 45 minutes a week – as they did in 1992, the ABS reported.
Household work is defined as caring for children, as well as cleaning and cooking.
Women did most of the indoor tasks while men spent time outdoors mowing the lawn and home maintenance, the polling shows.
“Spent time outdoors.”
I suspect if the headline was more in keeping with the contents of the story — that men and women have, and act-upon, pre-conceived notions of what task is better suited to their personal characteristics, including their gender — it wouldn’t have been nearly as incendiary as this unsupported and unstated implication that the lads are failing to pull their weight. And therefore wouldn’t have piqued nearly as much interest.
We sure do have a lot of people running around, who don’t really want men and women to get along any better. Y’know?
You gals looking around for stories like this, and tales of “I wish my man could be like him!” just to see how jealous you can be — my woman works at her job twice as many hours as I do at mine, then comes home and cooks, vacuums on her days off, and even brought home four boxes of my favorite beer last weekend. So you work hard at making others happy, others will work hard at making you happy…and you don’t even need some ledger-scribbling bean-counting nanny government agency to make that happen. What a concept, huh? That goes for some of you fellas, too. But this kind of falls into the “if ya gotta be told you ain’t never gonna learn” file.
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What kind of moron spends 33 hours a week on household chores? I call bogus bullshit on the numbers.
Unless you’re caring for an infant or toddler, you don’t count the hours you spend with your children after work or on weekends as “childcare” – that’s called family time.
You are so right about this petty tit for tat agenda certain women keeping pushing. Happy normal couples don’t keep a running tally sheet on who did what last or how much – you just get it done so you can get to the fun stuff, like drinking beer and knocking boots.
- Daphne | 03/25/2009 @ 14:51I do almost all of the housework in my household, both indoors and outdoors. The kids that are still at home have chores, but I do a lot of it because I want it done right. You don’t suppose that could have anything to do with this subject, do you?
- chunt31854 | 03/25/2009 @ 17:03That’s about right. I do the outdoor work, she does most of the indoor work. Though I do do my share of the cooking, especially, and dishes, to a slightly lesser degree. I do all the vacuuming, because she hates it and I don’t mind (plus I have a big, honkin’ metal bodied one Tim Allen would be proud of). But she does the laundry and dusting and a lot of the dishes. I fix broken stuff, do the garden, and other maintenance on the house. And cars, if the job is small enough.
We ARE different. Last time I checked, she had stuff on her body I don’t have on mine, and vice versa. Those differences seem to have some manifestation inside of ourselves as well. Who’d’a thunk?
- philmon | 03/25/2009 @ 17:12Chunt – Are you saying that you married an incompetent man?
- Daphne | 03/25/2009 @ 17:22No, what I’m saying is that I’m single. Did anyone include me in their polling data?
- chunt31854 | 03/26/2009 @ 14:18