Saturday, December 25, 2010

The Inequality of Chores

When my parents were growing up, Chores were split by the women do the cooking and cleaning while the men did the yard work and heavy lifting. Now a days, there is no way to say for certain this is true in every household. For instance, what about gay/lesbian households? Who does what if you are both the same gender? And what about single income families with the wife being the bread winner instead of the man?
Stay at home dads are way more common than you would originally expect. For example, in my house, my dad does the majority of the chores while all my mother does is clean. And what about families that are divorced or a single parent? There are just way too many factors today that there is no longer the set women do these chores while men do the others. I believe that in the future there will be a completely different view of who should do what chores.
Times are a changin'.


1 comment:

  1. i like your pictures. I asked the same questions...I lived with dad--divorces parents and my dad did the cleaning, cooking, breadwinning etc. but that just my family i think of other my other family members and friend's family and i see how the division of labor can be a bit lopsided, it just depends on the type of family.

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