Married men earn more if their wives do the chores!!!!

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Do you think married women earn more if their husbands do the chores?

Don't be silly - they'd never have thought of testing that hypothesis would they

dillydally!

Actually, I'm sure there was some research a while back (I know, surveys schmurveys) that showed that married men were happier than unmarried men but that single women were happier than married women. Hmm, wonder why?

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there and I believed my tutor!

I think it is true actually, but the only difference is lack of willingness to get to grips with what they perceive to be trivia.

Well there you go then nightynight, so it's societal expectation, not genetics. Toss isn't it?

men are just t***S and I mean that literally to!

custardo has a very good point - reverse causality is at play surely? of course married men with stay at home wives earn more - but that's not why they earn more. They earn more and therefore they can afford for their wife to stay at home.

I know that men whose wives "don't do most of the housework" are included (as opposed to men whose wives stay at home) but no distinction is made.

Don't make this a man hating thread, hate those.

They can;t do more than one thing at once though. For instance, in the morning I will put some washing on whilst leaving Weetabix to soak whilst warming up bottles whilst changing nappies and sitting dd1 on the potty whereas dh will stand staring out of the window whilst the bottle warms up, then get stressed as dd1 has peed on the floor, dd2 has pood through her nappy and then moan about no clean clothes.

Ah but oliveoil, many men disprove that theory by being able to play Playstation and drink beer or

yes, mine seems to watch 17 channels at once as well, flicking through with his bstrd remote control .

yep - why is it that my DH can hold down a webcam conference about work with a bloke the other side of the world, whilst chatting to a buddy about tv on an internet chat link thingie, carry on working on an unrelated work project on screen 2, drink a mug of tea, eat toast and still find time to text his brother about getting together at the weekend...(doing all this right now sitting next to me, grinning and reading my typing ) yet ask him to fetch DD?s juice cup from downstairs if he is going down there anyway and 99% of the time will forget AAAAGGGHHHH.
Love him really...

when washing the pots last night i said TO DH "ARE YOU DRYING?" it wasn't a question. so he stood next to me with a towel in his hand waiting. " don't stand there like one of fkin lewis'" says i "clean the sides til theres some pots to dry. fuckwit.

'reverse causality' yeah senorapostraphe thats what i was going to say.....ijust dumbed it down for err..well for ..me!

so is it equally true then for couples where they both work full time but she still does all the housework?

sorry, custy - came over all sociology graduate there didn't I? (and I'm not even a sociology graduate).