John Smith wrote on Dec 6
th, 2014 at 3:53pm:
the problem is not that they can't, but they don't want to
not that long ago, a womans job was to maintain the house and cook for her family. It was her whole career. Even most off those that worked regarded work as socondary to their duties to the home. The better she did it, the better her status amongst her peers. Women used to take pride in it and were constantly trying to improve. Today women no longer need to do that. They gets their status and pride through their other careers. Cooking has become a chore rather than the career it once was.
Really?
yes
If only one partner works it is the norm for the other partner to attend to the household 'duties' but if both parties work I think those home duties should be shared.
I agree, but I wasn't talking about how I feel about it now, I was talking about how I think people saw it back then
What about when the kids are gone and you are both retired how should the duties be shared then?
The wife doing all the cooking, washing, cleaning etc while the man mows the lawn once a fortnight and exercises the tv remote? How is that an equal partnership?
again, I'm not talking about the world now, but rather how I think it was viewed in decades gone by