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Equal share of the workload on Cold RickImages and videos used on the Cold Rick site are to the best of our knowledge public domain. Anything found to be breaching copyright will be removed immediately. Articles on the Cold Rick site remain the property of the writer/submitter and the opinions stated in these articles are not necessarily the opinions of the Cold Rick site or its editors.1st March 2006 About a year or so ago I got into a bit of a heated discussion with a group of about 10 people at a BBQ. Not one of them agreed with my opinion, and I still have a lot of difficulty understanding why. The discussion began when I stated my view that "ideally, in any shared household, both partners should share the ENTIRE workload on an equal basis, including apportioning household chores and external work according to their value." Now I realise that there is no such thing as a work-o-meter that allows people to attribute a value to their input, but all I was getting at was that if the wife has a more demanding external job than the husband, then the husband should perform more of the household chores than the wife, and vice versa. Every person at that BBQ seemed to be of the belief that both partners should equally share the housework no matter how demanding that partner's external work load. After a while, realising that their argument had no substance, they began to hit me with arbitrary questions such as "well how can you measure something like that?". This was when I knew that they knew they were wrong, but couldn't admit it. By the end of the discussion, not one person openly agreed with my position. Continued below... |
I restated what I was saying several times, as I wanted to be sure that people understood exactly what I was saying, and still nobody agreed with me.
Naturally, this sort of thing needs to be worked out between the couple who share the household, and there will never be a definite value put on either partners input, but I still maintain that if one partner has a greater external input to a household, the other partner should be prepared to take on more of the internal workload.
This is how the old stereotype of the husband being the breadwinner and the wife being the homemaker began. The husband had more external input to the household and the wife had more internal input. These days with more women joining the workforce, the situation needs to be re-assessed and in a household where both partners work then both partners need to provide some input to the household chores. BUT, not necessarily to the extent that both partners share the household chores 50/50.
If a husband puts in 10 hours a day in a coal mine and the wife does 8 hours in a florist shop, would it be fair to share the household chores 50/50? Definitely not. That is just one extreme example. Some jobs are more demanding mentally, whilst some are more demanding physically. It is quite conceivable that in some situations a partner may perform less hours in their main job than the other and still do less than half the housework. Every situation is different and needs to be assessed by the couple involved.
I thought this was a reasonable argument, but do you think I could get anyone at that BBQ to agree with me? Nup!
What I definitely don't agree with is any culture that stereotypes the roles of their people, and that includes this seemingly new western stereotype of 50/50 housework. It must have crept up on us whilst we weren't looking
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