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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There is no such thing. Way to devalue homemakers.
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I don't think it's easy to live with anyone regardless of gender but when you add all the cultural expectations in, it's got to be even harder.
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This wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't for the fact that employers (particularly older employers who tend to occupy higher managerial positions in most workplaces) have little to no sympathy for the fact that most women work a second shift at home, or that the onus of caring for a sick child tends to fall more often on one parent than the other.
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Yup. And it's sad how effective it is, so many of my friends just accept that their SO can't do anything household related without fucking it up and stop questioning it.
Luckily that shit won't work on me because I was raised by a single dad who managed to somehow figure out how to sew and iron curtains, cook dinner every night, keep a clean house, braid me and my sisters hair, bake cinnamon buns and birthday cakes, etc... without any mystical woman-only skills.
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That's a good point: perpetuating the idea of housework being women-only hurts men as well as women.
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