More Women Are Breadwinners, But They Still Can’t Get Out Of The Kitchen

[aviv]

Women are a growing part of the American workforce. In the last 25 years, the number of working women has grown by 44.2 percent, while 59.4 percent of working-age women are currently in the labor force. Sixty percent of women are the primary or co-bread winner for their household.

But despite those historic numbers, most women are still left doing

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[katrinar]

i can attest to this. i am a work-out-of-the-home parent (my husband stays home) but my level of household chore participation hasn't gone down at all.

[katrinar]

ugh. i LOVE my husband. very much. for many reasons.

his ability to prioritize and get things done is not one of those reasons. he tidies. he complains about how hard it is to raise a toddler.

he has no idea how to cook and forgets laundry for days in the washer and dryer. he has always been like this.

[katrinar]

YES! i leave notes he doesn't read and he's getting better at cooking but even frying up eggs for him takes 30 minutes. FRYING EGGS.

it's just so much easier. ha ha!

[katrinar]

i should also add, i'm also still breastfeeding.

[romp]

I saw my father intentionally fail to be a help--40 years and he still didn't know where the dishes went?--as a way to get out of housework. I suspect more than a few make teaching them more work than their partner feels it's worth.

[aviv]

My father is the same :@

[thevelvetsun]

Men like that are fucking assholes. That's why I want to live with a man before getting married, so I can dump his ass before he can say bye if he pulls that bullshit on me.

[romp]

He was good father but he sucked as a partner. Which is funny because I think he was above-par for his generation but only because the standards were so low.

[roseofjuly]

My father does that too. He makes asking him to do household work such a pain in the ass that people gave up.

Until we moved out of the house, and then my mom was like "fuck this, do your own shit."

[elialshadowpine]

My dad did the same thing. Granted, he could cook... but pretty much everything else fell down to my mom or us kids.

[chaya]

Smartphone reminders? Task list? I mean, toddlers are hard, but you have to be able to make basic food and do basic household tasks in the interims.

[katrinar]

we have tried. he is good at tuning out what he doesn't like.

[chaya]

[roseofjuly]

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