Comments on: Today’s Husband Creates 7 Extra Hours of Housework Each Week

By: tracy

tracy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:58:10 +0000

my husband is from eastern europe and he doesn’t do one thing in the house. He thinks that everything is my job and complains when it’s not done to his standard.At the moment he is only working 2 days a week and will sit at the computer the other 5 days playing games from when he gets up to when he goes to bed, we have 4 children and I do everything inc cleaning 2 cars cutting both lawns and all housework and cooking etc..

By: countrydiva

countrydiva — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:44:59 +0000

call me old fashioned but marriage is a partnership therefore the chores should be divvied up equally. find your strengths, weaknesses. how hard can this be? the more who share in the work makes more time for fun stuff - duh!! #1hubby can fold clothes while watching the t v; etc, in fact there is nothing good on the tv so turn it off and talk while doing the chores together.
#2 learn something new - like how to do dishes, laundry, duh, and I think gardening and so on should be included…the outside should be as nice as the inside; #3 how hard is it to clean the bathroom?? vacuum, mop floors, jmho (just my humble opinion)

By: valerie

valerie — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:11:14 +0000

Who cares how much “housework” people do?? That is not the government’s or taxpayers business. It is up to each houshold to work out which chores are necessary (vs. optional) and how chores should be divied up. The real shame is that this study was federally funded, which means it was paid for by our tax dollars.

By: Lex

Lex — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:37:18 +0000

The article is based on self-reported time doing housework. Self reporting is the most inaccurate way to observe behavior. I trust this data about as far as I can throw my husband after he leaves his socks on the floor

By: S.R

S.R — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:19:11 +0000

Wow, there is a lot of bitterness here on both sides! Here’s an idea, why not respect each other, help each other, stop being selfish, and take the “men’s role” and “womens role ” out of the equation. Who cares who washes the floor, fixes the car, cooks dinner, or mows the lawn. Get your heads out of 1950, it’s 2008 and household and family responsibility’s should be shared by both people 50/50. For goodness sake people, it’s just a stupid article, grow up!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:28:18 +0000

I wonder how many taxpayer dollars went into this misandric study.

Household maintenance, auto repair and the like aren’t considered housework?
Maybe so, but these things still need to be done and therefore, they are a valuable contribution.
This lazy man built the house his lovely (and I mean that) wife now keeps clean. This lazy man tackles every automotive job to save money so she won’t have to work outside the home, and I’d still do it even if she had a paycheck just so the money would go further. I’ll tell you what though;there were times when I would have gladly traded wrestling a transmission for pushing a vacuum cleaner.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:50:04 +0000

I work all day, come home, clean house, cook for the two of us, do dishes, repair things, do the laundry, etc… and oh yeah, I’m a man, too. I do about 95% of any of the work around the house. ‘Cause I do it best.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:48:14 +0000

I think there is a growing resentment between men and women. Both sides believe the other to have unfair advantage of some kind. Here is my take.
- Women use withholding sex to dominate a relationship. Not fair
- Men do not clean up after themselves. Not good
- Men chores / womens work - combine into one then divide into half.

By: Armando

Armando — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:48:03 +0000

I believe in fairness. I also believe that one should not be biased or hypocritical. Let’s add up all the hours of worked away from home and include the hours of work around the house, not just inside the house. Also, grease is grease; add the hours of car maintenance and home repair maintenance. To omit these would lead to a bias study.

By: Jaine

Jaine — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:42:04 +0000

I agree that the headline was sensationalist, but it is still rare to find a husband who will share the workload at home. When I was married, as well as working outside the home, cooking, birthing babies, etc. I also mowed the yard, took the car to the mechanic and other “man” stuff, so it didn’t matter whether the article “counted” that as housework. Guess what? I finally divorced him. He never did understand why.

Am I someone men hate to be around? Hardly. Haven’t figured it out yet, but at this age I am having to fight them off. I have been wined and dined and taken on fancy vacations and presented with jewelry. They think I’m clever, sexy and good company. Even THEIR friends want to be remembered to me.

But only one is a serious option in my eyes.

He likes to help around the house. We work like partners, not boss and subordinate. Got that fellas??

Didn’t think so. Your loss. There are many women out there like me. You just won’t be able to hold on to one of them.