Traditional Gender Roles of Housework
Oct 7, 2009 | Posted by bryan | 0 Comments
Traditional Gender Roles in Housework and the Time Differences
According to a male housework poll, women take twice as long as men to perform their chores around the house before leaving for work.
Research commissioned by Stylist Magazine showed that the average male housework can be completed in 49 minutes.
However, females spend two hours and three minutes on errands around the house before work.
Statistics of women with children without jobs are inconclusive. Although nearly 80 per cent of women with children quizzed said they felt like they had done a full day’s work before arriving at work.
A further 53 per cent of women without children said they feel the same before getting to their office.
Lisa Smosarski, editor of Stylist magazine, told the Daily Telegraph: “Women have a lot more to juggle now and there is still this stereotypical image of them doing the housework and the cooking.
“They don’t feel put upon but it is more challenging as for most it is compulsory to go to work for financial reasons.”
Further findings from the study revealed that the average woman spends the best part of a month of every year getting ready to go to work.