Even little kids have a wage gap

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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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[fenris_lorsrai]

This just make me happy I was only child of two only children so had very little gender division growing up because if they waited around on the "right" person doing it, it often didn't get done. Other than cooking, which always ended up being Mom til I was in high school and then it rotated between the three of us.

which is still more of less happens and we've got a little scorepad in kitchen where you write down how much you did around house this week. Loser buys takeout on the night nobody has to cook. Similar sort of mix and match "do what needs doing" chore system can flatten out disparities in who does what and how valuable it is. Those that do more, get more, or get control over something that EVERYBODY wants. Or gets out of the thing they don't like.

(for those that like the idea, we've got chart split into 3 sections: items put where they belong, actual cleaning, and special projects. Put away covers stuff like dishes and laundry, clean includes anything that is actual CLEANING like sweeping floor or doing windows, and special projects covers any household labor that clearly needs doing but falls in neither category, like shoevling the driveway, ironing, repairs, or reorganizing stuff. Cleaning and special projects go by minutes spent, put away goes by item. so you could do nothing but the heavy labor and lose to the person that put all the laundry and dishes away all week. so it pays off to actually take your laundry downstairs and not leave your dishes laying about. But the person that spent all afternoon splitting wood also gets a payout.

kids may game that basic system a bit, but can be modified to deal with ones that are too clever. yeah, no, dirtying dishes just to wash them, no. So it evens out with longer work getting hourly wage, the "put away" gets a per piece, so doing the little stuff will add up at end of week)