ELLE investigates a new study that suggests the fairer sex is seriously bummed
By Rachael Combe
If this doesn’t seem to reflect what’s going on in your home, the problem may be more qualitative than quantitative. While you and your husband may be logging about the same number of hours of work, some recent surveys show that he may be enjoying his more. In other words, men may be cherrypicking the good stuff and leaving the “shit work” to women, who are supposed to be grateful for the opportunities in the office and the help at home. “It’s a controversy in research, deciding if an activity is leisure or work,” Stevenson says. Child care, for example, can be a blast or a drag, depending on what kind of care the kid needs and your frame of reference: “When my mother takes care of my daughter, it’s leisure, not work,” Stevenson points out. “But I have to pay my nanny to do the same thing.” Read more…
