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

Jun 26, 2012 13:30

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 ( Read more... )

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militsa June 26 2012, 18:07:27 UTC
What else is new. I'm a mom with a full-time job who knows dozens of the same and it's all the same, always. Those stats are even more favorable to men then I would have thought based on people I know.

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mirhanda June 26 2012, 18:10:03 UTC
the women who don’t work

There is no such thing. Way to devalue homemakers.

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miss_almost June 26 2012, 21:41:52 UTC
not this again.

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aviv June 26 2012, 22:09:36 UTC
xD

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roseofjuly June 27 2012, 02:39:46 UTC
You know they mean "work outside the home." Come on, this is an article about how women do more work around the house.

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romp June 26 2012, 18:32:32 UTC
My parents knew by the time I was a teen that I wasn't going to put up with anything less than equality in a relationship. My mother likely raised me this way in the '70s after being exposed to feminism. No surprise when I wound up with a woman, I think.

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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roh_wyn June 26 2012, 18:39:31 UTC
I can attest to this, at least anecdotally. We're a two-worker family, and most of the household chores (and at least 50% of the parenting responsibilities) do end up on my plate. I won't blame my spouse for this though, because it's partially my own fault. I take on more chores than are really necessary, and he helps as much as possible (read: as much as I let him, lol).

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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randomtasks June 26 2012, 19:25:38 UTC
Honestly, it baffles me that working mothers tolerate this because my mother absolutely did not. I was raised by a SAHD who did everything from cooking to cleaning to doing fixer uppers around the house, he even painted my nails whenever I wanted him to when my mom worked 13 hour work days so there's no reason why men can't do those things. The men who complains about how they CAN'T do household duties are lying. They DON'T want to do it so they're basically trying to complain their way out of it.

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madskellig June 26 2012, 19:54:56 UTC
The men who complains about how they CAN'T do household duties are lying. They DON'T want to do it so they're basically trying to complain their way out of it.

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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hellotreetops June 26 2012, 20:18:25 UTC
Your dad sounds amazing. :)

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romp June 26 2012, 20:51:49 UTC
mystical woman-only skills

That's a good point: perpetuating the idea of housework being women-only hurts men as well as women.

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