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> but today I know very few marriages with the wife in a traditional role like that. About 30% of married mothers don’t work outside the home, according to BLS

> but today I know very few marriages with the wife in a traditional role like that. About 30% of married mothers don’t work outside the home, according to BLS statistics [1]. You may want to consider the possibility that the sample of people you know is very unrepresentative. > The modern marriage has the home workload split equally and very often outsourced. In “egalitarian” marriages where the husband and wife earn about the same amount of money, wives on average spend more than twice as much time on household chores and 40% more time on caregiving, according to Pew [2]. > Couldn't read the paywalled Opinion article on WaPo It’s easy enough to get around the paywall to read the Opinion article from a law professor who specializes in child custody in divorce, but I guess you’d rather just continue to hold on your persecution complex. [1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf [2] https://www.npr.org/2023/04/13/1168961388/pew-earnings-gender-wage-gap-housework-chores-child-care https://www.npr.org/2023/04/13/1168961388/pew-earnings-gende...

nickpp 3y ago
> About 30% of married mothers don’t work outside the home So the great majority do. That actually confirms my world view. Of course my bubble is not representative, but it turns out that it formed the most probably correct opinion. Good enough for me. > where the husband and wife earn about the same amount of money So hard-working women (and they need to be hard-working in order to make as much as men who still have an advantage in the workplace) are also hard working at home. The article says that is only 29% of cases though. > you’d rather just continue to hold on your persecution complex You gave me a paywalled article. I gave you a whole free book which you dismissed summarily. Who'd rather hold onto their preconceived ideas then? I do thank you for the other links, I learned some facts I did not know.
- CrazyStat 3y ago
  > I gave you a whole free book which you dismissed summarily. Yeah, because giving someone in a casual online conversation a whole book without even telling them what point they’re supposed to take from it is fucking stupid.

nickpp 3y ago

> About 30% of married mothers don’t work outside the home So the great majority do. That actually confirms my world view. Of course my bubble is not representative, but it turns out that it formed the most probably correct opinion. Good enough for me. > where the husband and wife earn about the same amount of money So hard-working women (and they need to be hard-working in order to make as much as men who still have an advantage in the workplace) are also hard working at home. The article says that is only 29% of cases though. > you’d rather just continue to hold on your persecution complex You gave me a paywalled article. I gave you a whole free book which you dismissed summarily. Who'd rather hold onto their preconceived ideas then? I do thank you for the other links, I learned some facts I did not know.

CrazyStat 3y ago
> I gave you a whole free book which you dismissed summarily. Yeah, because giving someone in a casual online conversation a whole book without even telling them what point they’re supposed to take from it is fucking stupid.