Ross: No sense in stereotypes when it comes to household chores
Feb 19, 2020, 7:19 AM | Updated: Feb 26, 2020, 7:05 am
Chores shouldn't be defined by roles like husband or wife. (Unsplash).
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A couple of new studies using data going back over 40 years show that a large number of millennial couples still divide up the household chores the way their parents did.
It’s far from a majority, but among the current generation of woke young people, you still see the women in charge of the children and the vacuum, and the men in charge of patching the roof and earning the money.
This has sociologists worried that something needs to be done.
But it could also mean that these young couples are OK with that. I know that there are women who just can’t wait to climb an aluminum ladder in a thunderstorm to patch a roof leak, but if her crazy husband is already up there, why should she?
And as for why young men don’t like to vacuum – I see there’s this theory that they consider it effeminate. Really? Give a man a shop vac, and he can suck out the entire contents of a garage in 15 minutes.
I think the key to a good marriage is negotiating what each of you is best at, and if the sociologists think you’re perpetuating a stereotype, that’s their problem.
A fun footnote — after I read about the study, I went into the family room where my wife was opening the mail and started vacuuming the carpet.
She walked over, gave me a little kiss, and then went to a different room where it wasn’t as noisy.
Stereotype obliterated!
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