Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Here's some fun

In what appears to be a slap in the face for gender equality, the report found the divorce rate among couples who shared housework equally was around 50 per cent higher than among those where the woman did most of the work. 
It's only a "study" so it probably means nothing at all but why let that stand in the way of fun?

 I've often wondered how keen women really are to share the housework. I know they say they are but my experience has been that there is always some aspect of housework, usually an unpleasant one, that women will cling to. And, as with a lot of feminist aspirations there is a lot of passive aggressive stuff at work where women say they want these things and then work to undermine efforts to make it happen.

And then there is this suggestion from one of the study's authors:
  • “Maybe it’s sometimes seen as a good thing to have very clear roles with lots of clarity ... where one person is not stepping on the other’s toes,” he suggested. 
Ya think?

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