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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[redstar826]

my parents were the same with lawn mowing. I mowed the lawn for something like 4-5 years then my younger brother followed after me then my dad went back to doing it

funny thing is, at the time I HATED it and tried arguing that I shouldn't have to do it because I was a girl (my dad pretty much replied with "LOL NO" to that one) but now I really appreciate how fair they were

[scolaro]

For example, mowing the lawn generally garners higher allowance wages than folding laundry. Shoveling a snow-covered driveway might yield more cash in hand than emptying the dishwasher.

The article is not surprising, but the examples aren't great, IMO. Mowing a huge garden can take more time/effort than folding a bag of laundry, and emptying a dishwasher may be done quicker than shoveling a driveway. (And vice versa, of course.)

At any rate, chores shouldn't be tied to gender, and everyone should get the same pay for the same work, obviously!

[elialshadowpine]

I don't know, I'd take mowing the lawn over mating the sock basket any day. That shit took hours.

[anolinde]

gorl, how many socks did you have??

[elialshadowpine]

Oh my gods. We literally had a sock basket. Not a cute little straw basket, either, I mean a monstrous big ole hamper sized basket. Probably about once a year was the great project to go through the sock basket, find the mates, and toss the ones we couldn't find. It was usually a full day project.

And no, we never did figure out where the socks all went. -_-

[astridmyrna]

Well, this is depressing.

If I ever have kids, I'm just going to do what my mom did for me and my sister and type a list of chores with different amounts of money earned. From what I recall, taking out the little trashes was about a quarter, vacuuming was $2, and cleaning out the fridge was $10 (my sister never had the patience to do this, but I sure as hell did!)

[seishin]

*Recalls YEARS of fights with my mother over the huge gap between my chore load and my lazy ass brother* Thankfully, I got a decent allowance.

So...yeah. Not surprised by this in the least.

[blackpuddle]

Not surprised. Brother and I did pretty much the same amount of work, he got an allowance, I didn't. Sister didn't do any work though she didn't get money either at least.