Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.
Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.