Archives
November 2007
11/30/07
11/30/07
11/30/07
11/30/07
11/29/07
11/29/07
11/29/07
11/28/07
11/28/07
11/28/07
11/28/07
11/27/07
11/27/07
11/27/07
11/26/07
11/26/07
11/26/07
11/26/07
11/25/07
11/24/07
11/24/07
11/23/07
11/23/07
11/22/07
11/22/07
11/21/07
11/21/07
11/21/07
11/21/07
11/20/07
11/20/07
11/20/07
It Makes Sense
11/19/07
11/19/07
11/19/07
11/19/07
11/18/07
11/17/07
11/16/07
11/16/07
11/16/07
11/16/07
11/15/07
11/15/07
11/15/07
11/15/07
11/14/07
11/14/07
11/14/07
11/14/07
11/13/07
11/13/07
11/13/07
11/13/07
11/12/07
11/12/07
11/12/07
11/12/07
11/11/07
11/9/07
11/9/07
11/9/07
11/8/07
11/8/07
11/8/07
11/7/07
11/7/07
11/7/07
11/7/07
11/6/07
11/6/07
11/6/07
11/6/07
11/5/07
11/4/07
11/4/07
11/3/07
11/2/07
11/1/07
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
6:01:00 PM EST
Hearing When the World Was Young -- Robert Plant and Jimmy Page
It's no secret that women do more of the domestic chores around the home, even if they work outside the home. But now there's a study which shows how they can do comparatively less of it: Just earn lots of money:
A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that big paychecks equal less cooking and cleaning in a study of 918 women in double-income families.
Married women who made $40,000 or more a year spent nearly one hour less on housework per day than women who earned $10,000 or less, according to the findings based on data from the National Survey of Families and Households.
"Up to this point, people have thought that the important thing was how much money a woman makes compared to her husband. But the only thing that matters is how much money she earns," Sanjiv Gupta, the study's author, said in an interview.
And how is it these high-income women manage to avoid that housework? If you guess "they probably hired people to do it," you get a little gold sticker. But if I'm reading this right, it seems as if the money to do this comes out of the women's paycheck, not out of the man's paycheck. Seems a bit cheap, fellas.
Written by johnmscalzi Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | 
digg this
6:01:00 PM EST
Hearing When the World Was Young -- Robert Plant and Jimmy Page
It Makes Sense
It's no secret that women do more of the domestic chores around the home, even if they work outside the home. But now there's a study which shows how they can do comparatively less of it: Just earn lots of money:
A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that big paychecks equal less cooking and cleaning in a study of 918 women in double-income families.
Married women who made $40,000 or more a year spent nearly one hour less on housework per day than women who earned $10,000 or less, according to the findings based on data from the National Survey of Families and Households.
"Up to this point, people have thought that the important thing was how much money a woman makes compared to her husband. But the only thing that matters is how much money she earns," Sanjiv Gupta, the study's author, said in an interview.
And how is it these high-income women manage to avoid that housework? If you guess "they probably hired people to do it," you get a little gold sticker. But if I'm reading this right, it seems as if the money to do this comes out of the women's paycheck, not out of the man's paycheck. Seems a bit cheap, fellas.
Written by johnmscalzi Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | digg this
This entry has 3 comments: (Add your own)
-
I make an above average income and have never hired anyone to help with the domestic chores!! However, when I was married, my husband did more house work and cooking than I did. He was a teacher and had more time off of work. Plus, he was OCD and couldn't stand dirty (or a speck of dust on) floors and wouldn't let me touch his laundry because I seemed to always mess it up. Not that I messed it up on purpose or anything..
-
There is no distinction between my paycheck and my wife's paycheck in our household.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
11/21/07 12:02 AM