Even little kids have a wage gap

[redstar826]

Girls do more housework than boys -- and they make less in allowance for what they doGender as an organizing principle for how we value labor appears to have depressingly early, yet unsurprising, roots. Boys, on average, spend two fewer hours doing household chores per week than girls do (they play two hours more). And if they live in households

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[xo_bumblebee]

Ugh. I remember growing up every year on Thanksgiving, me and my female cousins had to clean up after 20 adults and thus were stuck in the kitchen, working, for hours on boxing up leftovers, rinsing and washing dishes, and making sure the kitchen was spotless. I always hated being in there while my male cousins sat around watching football after dinner. Then I would get mercilessly teased by my family when I'd announce "When I have a kid, they will clean up on Thanksgiving every year, whether they are a girl or boy!"

I never understood that one. It was completely ridiculous, sexist behavior.

[the_physicist]

yeah, i've been told by my family countless times to get in the kitchen at x-mas to cook or clean up while my male cousin doesn't have to do anything other than make a mess of the place. too common.

[romp]

Oh yeah, I would leave the kitchen and go chew out the men in the family, asking it they felt there was something on the Y chromosome which made them incapable of workings in the kitchen.

ooo, still gets my heart rate up!

[ohmiya_sg]

This still happens to me, minus my uncle. All the boys in my generation sit on the couch and enjoy themselves.

[twowaymirrrors]

This is how it still is in my family. The women have to cook and then are expected to clean everything up ourselves while the men get to sit around and relax. I've said stuff about it so many times and everyone thinks it's just so ridiculous to suggest everyone can help out. Even at home my mom and I (and my sister when she's here) are expected to clean up after dinner while my dad does whatever. He can't even clean up after himself if no one else is home. It's ridiculous.

[scolaro]

Pretty much the same on my father's side of the family when we were growing up. My grandma and my aunt always did the cooking (while the male members of the household did nothing), and at a certain point the female offspring was expected to help.

Only a few years later, my grandma is gone, my aunt is mentally at the end of her rope and none of the "kids" are doing anything anymore, because they're fed up with the family. And my grandpa still tells us about the great times when the women did what they were told, as God (or whoever) intended. Because back then everything was better, no one dared to divorce and the kids didn't talk back (lol).