I asked a question earlier about husbands helping their wives with housework. A couple of my answerers - both married women - said they thought that housework was "women's work".
Do you agree?
Or do you think that attitude is kind of medieval?
2007-02-25 08:16:28 · 52 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
This attitude is kind of medieval for sure. A man can do house work, just like a woman can be a firefighter, construction worker, police officer, chop wood, work on a farm, lawyer, doctor and the list can go on. A man can grab a bottle of Pledge or Windex and clean and they are also capable of washing a dish, vaccuming and changing thier child's diaper.
2007-02-25 14:59:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No way! Housework is the work of the person who's good at it and who doesn't mind.
If that doesn't fit either partner, then it should be 50/50.
Yes, the attitude that housework is women's work is medieval!
2007-02-25 10:17:37 · answer #2 · answered by kristin c 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OK ... look at it like this ... if the hosehold has a husband and wife in it then the housework can be either both their job, just her job or just his job. EX. in my home the housework is shared , but he tends to do things I won't do and vice versa.
Now ... if the household is made up of a single women, then the housework is hers ... same goes for if the household is made up of a single man ... then the houswork is all his. If there is NO woman in the home to do the housework ... it cannot be "women's work" ... I think it really is all situational.
2007-02-25 08:26:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In this day and age
Housework can be shared just as childrearing and garden work can be as well
Most married woman have to work as well as a the man
So why not share the duties through the house including the
Housework
So Housework is not only WOMANS work
In My humble opinion *S*
2007-02-25 08:19:55 · answer #4 · answered by Domina Pleasure 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
depend on how hard the man is working at other stuff. If he's busting his *** 100 hours a week at his job and his wife stays at home, he shouldn't have to do s*hit. If both of them are working outside the home about the same amount, then it should be a fifty-fifty deal.
But there's all kinds of housework. Washing clothes and fixing roofs. Cooking and replacing busted light fixtures. Any couple with any sense will figure out what is fair, make deals, and abide by them.
2007-02-25 09:42:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it should be equal if you both work and come home together then yes both husband and wife should do the house work together if just the man is working and the wife is home all day then no the wife should do the cleaning and the cooking, EXCEPTION is having small children(remember childern are a 24 hour a day job) in that case man should help out when home. also these days a lot of men are talking the roll staying home and watching the kids, in this case the man should be the one doing all the house work and cooking just like the wife if she were home.
2007-02-25 08:24:35 · answer #6 · answered by Lara <:(((>< 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i think different things work for different families. some women i know do everything in their houses. i do... much less. i am a horrible cleaner! i wash clothes and dishes and fold clothes but my husband cleans the house. he is so much better at it than i am. i tend to get distracted and it still looks like i didn't know what i was doing.
i don't agree that housework is for women only but if that is what works for some couples then whatever. as long as it isn't me. it does piss me off when men "demand" that the woman do all the work. screw that!
2007-02-25 08:26:54 · answer #7 · answered by somebody's a mom!! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A man and a woman who live in the same house should work together as a team . One supports the other and housework is just one of many tasks that could be shared.
2007-02-25 08:21:01 · answer #8 · answered by Richard J 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Housework is not a woman's work - it's a shared duty between the husband and wife. Any woman who supports this chauvanistic view not only needs to wake up and smell the coffee but needs to take a big whopping gulp of it. And she might benefit from getting over her cinderella complex while she's at it.
Just for the record, women contribute to male-chauvinism just as much as men do. Unbelievable really.
2007-02-25 12:20:07 · answer #9 · answered by Rain 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The additude is not medieval, but it certainly isn't progressive, either. I believe that both parties, men and women, regardless of the ralationship being same sex or opposite sex, must share responsibilities with housework in order to maintain a home and a functional, happy relationship.
2007-02-25 08:22:36 · answer #10 · answered by flak_monkey 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋