Didn’t your mother teach you…‘a man may work from sun to sun… but a woman’s work is never done!”
They were and are wrong…. and they’re not alone. Roughly 70% of Sociologists ‘felt’ that women were shouldering the greater ‘burden.’ Sometimes fact is what you want it to be.
In a recent study by Burda, Hamermesh & Weil, overall American men work harder than American women. Are you surprised? Now that the ‘burden’ is shifting more evenly… women in America are sharing in some of blessings of equal work… shorter life expectancy, heart attacks and all the goodies associated with the stress of working ‘outside the home.’
Now, this is not to say that women aren’t carrying more than their load in more ‘civilized’ countries like Switzerland or Iran… but in the United States, men are doing a lot… it’s part of our heritage where it has for many folks always taken two pulling together to survive.
So…. how did I come to this discuss this wonderful unemotional topic?… Laura lobbed it over to me… I think she likes to stir things up?
Roger Freberg ( not working as hard as the average American male… and feeling Okay about it)