Why complain "women do 66 percent of the work and receive 10 percent of the income" when it's housework?

Question

This is pretty typical of the sort of thing feminists like to say, I read it in the thread "has the women's movement gone too far", except the 10% was replaced by 5%, you can see the claim again here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism

Actually looking at the source:

United Nations Human Development Report 2004; Page 233, Gender, work burden and time allocation:

http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/pdf/hdr04_HDI.pdf

You can see it says women do more work, because they work more in NON-MARKET activities. Looking at MARKET ACTIVITIES, we see that men do FAR MORE WORK.

Market and non-market activities are defined in:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/SeriesF/SeriesF_91E.pdf

"The system treats volunteer work as a nonmarket activity just like
housework or leisure activities such as gardening."

So, in money earning work, men earn more and women don't earn as much for non money earning work! A travesty!!

Why bother with myths like this, feminists?

Blabber yaga: Yeah genius, do that and subject it to market laws of supply and demand and we'll see those women getting less than they probably do now from their husbands... LOL.

Or, alternately go ahead impose that rate, in the third world, where a dollar feeds a family for a month, and watch the law of "priced out of the market" enacted along with the associated mass female death from starvation.

Brilliant comments as always!

Answer 1

Its funny how feminists demand housework needs to be payed and such, but dont you dare demand that a feminist pays her share for shelter food water electricity oh and phone bills.

Answer 2

I have been a home maker for 17 years, I love to stay home, have dinner on the table when he gets off work. After all, he has to go out in the weather even if he does not want to. He has get up before the sun, to deal with being gone everyday, when I am SURE he would like to be the one that stays in jammies for 1/2 the morning, eating at the couch, watching TV and then doing a few hours of housework, while making it seem as if it took all day. It was a CHOICE we made before we were married, now we have 4 teenages, a GREAT marriage, and no complaints about any of it. Some want paid for housework, well I say stop complaining and look at what you have. After all, housework is easy. I'll bet your man even helps if you ask him. Try gettings a REAL job, like my husand, he is a Track Vehicle Mehanic for the military. I woldn't want his job, No Way! I have no needs, I get what I want, if we can afford it, it's not like his paychecks go into his wallet, it goes to the bills and if there is any left WE go out and spend it together!

Answer 3

Baba Yaga, that's totally nuts. Some women who are homemakers get more (than $25/hour), some get less, depending on how much money the couple has, not the other reasons you'd certainly come up with. --------- American women do not necessarily do more work than men. In most marriages, the man is expected to/resented for not doing 1/2 the housework and is expected to do most home repairs, all after making more money (dealing with more stress) in corporate America. But women more often do the lion's share of taking care of very young children. They deserve credit for that.

Answer 4

Don't forget that when maids, gardeners, or other household help do their job, they get a paycheck-I make no distinction between 'market' and 'non-market' activities.

In my marriage, I am the 'breadwinner' and my husband is the 'house-husband' (sort of-I still end up cleaning up after him many times). I wouldn't want to put him on a small allowance-we share and share alike.

I don't think of my situation as 'which gender should have more money' or 'the worker should get the lion's share'. Really, though, how can you calculate the house-wife's or house-husband's earnings? It's not as if they get a paycheck or a W2. Their income comes in the form of shared bank accounts, shared credit card accounts, etc.

Sure, the feminists use these myths to pull the wool over society's eyes, but I've seen just as much bias coming from the men. I practice equality in my life...yes, I've even held the door open for my husband plenty of times. If everyone quit pointing fingers and trying to point out everyone else's flaws and started to create a little equality in their own lives, I'd say most of the gender-discrimination issues would disappear.

People need to realize that equality is just that, equality, not preferential treatment.

Answer 5

In my relationship we work together...he works outside ofthe home and I don't. I do all the cooking and cleaning and if I need help or he sees something that needs to be done he does it.
This is my choice that I am making I am staying home and doing this because this is where I want to be.......I enjoy my free time...I am a person who is always on the go......I don't have small kids at home I have a 14 yo and my husband has more interaction with her than I do....I am an introvert in the extreme........I think all of the stuff that you have sited in your question is nonsense made up by people who can't seem to findtheir happiness in life and like to go about making life complicated for others.

If you have a partner in your life and you truly and I mean truly love and respect one another all this stuff is not an issue....if it is you have the wrong partner......
As goes with all the feminist crap......just a bunch of women who were getting the raw end of the stick....made life difficult for the ones who had it figured out....now we are just more enslaved that wwe ever have been

Answer 6

why are you so angry? She hurt your feelings? Why would you ask such a question when housework isn't women's work? Because you're living in the dark ages

Answer 7

I agree. Whoever does any housework in the family should receive an hourly wage for it: after all, work is work pure and simple. I say $25.00/hour paid out of a bank account exclusively set aside for this purpose and regularly paid into by whomever is working in a so-called 'market' job. Result: TWO 'market' jobs and the problem is solved!

Answer 8

If you can drug a women into becoming your wife, let me know how it works in YOUR household. Until then, you have no experience and no knowledge of the subject. Your flaming is getting old.

Answer 9

There are too many variables.
If a women is the stay at home mom, the man the breadwinner (as it had been for years before inflation forced families to need 2 incomes), then I believe her 'income' is her home, food, etc being provided for. Not to mention whatever money is shared but made by her man.
You sound bent because 'women want it all'. I agree, some do. But what do men want? You want to be the man who comes home from work and have your dinner on the table, the house clean and the kids in bathed and in bed. But with the need for 2 incomes, and the wife is now working a FT job, should she really be the one to work outside the home, then come home and do it all because it had always been considered 'womans work'? So in essense, shes having to do her job, and also contribute to help him do his. But he doesnt help her do hers. When is it her time to kick her feet up and relax?
The problem is, most marriages dont have a sense of actual fairness. Men work thier as* off and want to be able to come home and relax. Ok. But women nowadays are expected to work outside the home then come home and tend to the household duties. Fair?
In my home, I am the breadwinner, but my hubby works PT. He does most of the basic daily cleaning while I usually do the 'deep down' type of cleaning on my days off. He tends to the kids more than I do. We are happy and it works for us.
So before anyone, man or woman, starts complaining about what they arent getting or how much work they are doing, try being openminded and take a good look at the otherside.

Answer 10

You tell me *sigh*