Boyfriends Do More Housework Than Husbands !!

[se7en]

Boyfriends Do More Housework Than Husbands - Yahoo! News




Married men do less housework than live-in boyfriends, finds an international survey.


But married women do more housework than their live-in counterparts.


“Marriage as an institution seems to have a traditionalizing effect on couples—even couples who see men and women as equal,” said co-researcher Shannon Davis, a sociologist at George Mason University in Virginia.


Understanding the dynamics of couples who live together but are not married has become more important as cohabitation around the globe increases. More than 5 million unmarried partner households (more than 10 million individuals) currently exist in the United States, according to a 2006 report by the U.S. Census Bureau.


"I do," just not housework


The scientists analyzed surveys gathered in 2002 from 28 nations, from 17,636 respondents (8,119 males and 9,517 females) as part of the Family and Changing Gender Roles III Survey. All respondents were either married or cohabiting with a significant other.


Overall, they found men spent about 9 hours a week on housework compared with women, who spent more than 20 hours weekly.


"There's still a gender norm, since women do more housework than men regardless of union type," said study team member Jennifer Gerteisen Marks, who is working on a doctorate degree at North Carolina State University.


Regardless of the couples' relative earnings or work hours, cohabiting males reported more household hours than did their married counterparts, while the opposite was true for women, with wives picking up the broom less often than live-in girlfriends.


Other factors also came into play. Men who raked in more earnings than their partners did fewer hours of housework than men with lower relative incomes. "Those in the household with greater resources will leverage those resources to bargain their way out of housework," the authors write in the September issue of the Journal of Family Issues.

Couples who viewed men and women as equals were more likely to divvy up chores equally. But even in "egalitarian households," married men still contributed less to household chores than did their wives.


"It's consistent with prior research, which has shown that the roles of wives and husbands are very powerful," Marks told LiveScience. "In a cohabiting relationship there aren't such strongly prescribed social norms, which trickle down to things like housework."

Never getting married.

[SEAN!]

its quite possible that there is a difference in age inbetween the two groups which could account for the fact that the younger boyfriends are socialized to more readily accept untraditional gender roles then the older married men.

but i dont know for sure i didnt even read the article, however variables like that need to be accounted for.

[se7en]

Originally Posted by R Wellbelove

Never getting married.

agree. for all the ladies, stop pushing for the 3 month salary diamond. unless u want to cook and clean for the rest of ur life.:D

[thebobman]

"Married men do less housework than live-in boyfriends, finds an international survey. "
Hrm, if married men are doing less work, who could possibly be doing the work they aren't doing?

"But married women do more housework than their live-in counterparts."

If the first statement is true, then the second is plainly implied isn't it? what the hell was the point of that?

[Gusto]

the fact that husbands do less work than boyfriends doesn't imply that wives do more housework than girlfriends.

[hardstylin]

I heard as soon as a girl gets married she instantly forgets what a BJ is.

[thebobman]

Originally Posted by Gusto

the fact that husbands do less work than boyfriends doesn't imply that wives do more housework than girlfriends.

The maid don't enter into it!
[yeah, yeah, the husband could just get a maid, but I don't think the study would have taken those couples (& their maid) into consideration]