slate.com — Everyone from economists,sociologists & Oprah knows that women work more than men. Their longer combined hours, at the home and office, stop men from taking naps on the couch and cause fights that end with men sleeping on the couch. According to new study, those longer hours are a myth, because it's just not true that women carry a heavier load.
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bruflethApr 17, 2007
Not everyone has kids or the kids have moved out. Somehow the men usually still have to work longer hours and these days they're still expected to split all house work. I know I work longer hours and I still cook and clean. I'm pretty sure that any woman trying to argue that men have it easier need only look at life expectancy and stress related illness to see that men have it pretty rough in that department.
alexkorovaApr 17, 2007
Oh my god, generally, Digg users know something about the world around them, but some diggs are filled with hate and prejustice(I don't know, I'm not a native english speaker, but I hope you understand). Like this one. Do all of you hate women because of some bad experiences?
Closed AccountApr 17, 2007
Its all relative, nothing is really as it seems to the other person. Take my wife and I for instance, we live the old fashioned "leave it to beaver" stereotypical man works makes money, wife raises kids and takes care of home lifestyle. My wife gets up early with the kids, that's a pain. Then I stay late to work and make money, that's a pain. To me it seems from the outside she has an easy day, but long. To her it seems I have a "shorter" day, but packed with exciting work stuff. In all reality, her day drags on with little chance for a break, while my day although often more "condensed", is a pressure cooker of balls to the wall stress. Sure my day was officially shorter, but while I was churning up an additional 5 quarts of stomach acid she was walking through the local zoo with the kids. Fact is we know that although we don't split any chore 50-50, we're still putting forth a good 50-50 effort into our relationship and our marriage.
reaperunrealApr 17, 2007
@brenbartIt's a reference to Futurama."Why couldn't Bender have joined a mainstream religion like Oprahism, or Voodoo?"
capellathestarApr 17, 2007
@ Phyltre - I agree, as a female those bother me too. Also, what bothers me is the commercials, where usually the husband is the retard who cannot figure out how to turn on an air freshener apparently.Somewhere in our quest for equality, we tipped the scales in the other direction. As always.I say - men stand up for your rights to be treated and portrayed as equals.
jas168Apr 18, 2007
@MrSteamTankWhat you need to realize is that gender is a completely societal construct, and determines a lot of what we do. I almost feel like we've socialized girls to play with dolls and boys with guns, then later said "well, she chose the doll and THAT is why she's the mother figure". But while we have obvious evolutionary/biological explanations, a lot of the bottom line is social. For example women are just as capable of inventing things or writing as men from a biological standpoint (maybe moreso for the latter), yet women take jobs as cashier, waitress and men become doctors.BUT just because that's observable, doesn't mean women "choose" it any more than they choose to be socialized in all types of other ways. Unfortunately even it makes feminists view things like looking pretty as "giving in" (though that's less the case in our generation). Really though, don't blame the individual as much as the institution. We both probably know it's true that it would hurt a man's ego to work as a waiter at a family resturant... That's not biological as much as it is social. See what I mean here?
cletusjonesApr 18, 2007
I find it funny that in the second ivillage link there, it almost justifies womens cheating.
xfluffyfrogxAug 3, 2007
I myself am female but I'm tired of all this nonsense that men are lazier than women and they just sit around the house drinking beer, watching TV and burping -.-" Maybe it's just like that in YOUR family, but not everyone is the same. But I guess people say women have it harder because of all those bodily things.
dpeters28Dec 18, 2008
Give me a break. Women have been afforded the same rights and privileges as men for a very long time now. If your argument that society has kept women from inventing is valid we would have seen something useful invented by a woman by now. We have not (and Quismet the retarded robot does not count).
dpeters28Dec 18, 2008
Why does it blow my mind whenever I see a sane post by a woman? I also get the distinct feeling that she is somehow being guided by an outside force and that it would not take more than a slight breeze to push her back to crazy? Hmmm, I think I might be a bit jaded.