HAS FEMINISM FAILED? 80% OF MARRIED WOMEN STIL DO HOUSEWORK

[Daanyeer]

Has feminism failed? Eight out of ten married women STILL do more housework than their husbands

Just one in 10 married men do an equal amount of chores in the home

Number of 'house husbands' in Britain has trebled over the last 15 years

With or without a university degree, men continue to earn more than women
Study carried out by Institute for Public Policy Research


By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED:16:10 GMT, 31 March 2013| UPDATED: 16:14 GMT, 31 March 2013


Feminism has failed working class women by focussing too much on gender equality in high profile roles, according to new research.

Eight out of 10 married women still do more housework than their husbands, according to the research by think-tank Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), while just one in 10 married men do an equal amount and 13 per cent do more.


Despite this, the number of 'house husbands' in Britain trebled over the last 15 years, with 62,000 men staying at home to care for their family and remaining economically inactive.

While the average gap between the earnings of men and women has narrowed in the last 50 years, differences between professional and unskilled women are significantly higher than those between men, a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found.

With or without a university degree, men continue to earn more than their female counterparts.

But researchers found that women with a degree born in 1958 earned nearly three times as much as women in unskilled jobs born in the same year - compared to a difference of less than half between men in the same groups.

Dalia Ben-Galim, IPPR associate director, said: 'While feminism has delivered for some professional women, other women have been left behind.

'Many of the advances for women at the top have masked inequality at the bottom.



'The "break-the-glass-ceiling" approach that simply promotes "women in the boardroom" has not been as successful in changing family-friendly working culture or providing opportunities for other women to advance.

'Gender still has a strong independent impact on women's earnings prospects - but class, education and occupational backgrounds are stronger determinants of a woman's progression and earnings prospects.

Motherhood was also a key factor, with women who had children earlier seeing their earnings prospects decrease compared to those who postponed forming a family, the study found.

For men the reverse was true, as fathers enjoyed a 'fatherhood pay bonus' which saw them earn more than men without children.

The IPPR called for a more progressive parental leave system, more affordable and accessible childcare and better paid part-time jobs to address these issues.

It also warned against the 'decoy effect' of focussing on women in high profile positions, and said the breaking down of stereotypes should be the priority.

Researchers discovered that British men and women increasingly marry partners from their same social group, with a decline in women 'marrying up' and a small increase of women 'marrying down.


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[zulaika]

It was a failed notion to begin with..

[Negritude]

^

Can't your husband beat, I mean uh 'rough sex', you into a coma? Everything you say sets humanity back a half century.

In response to the thread, there's evidence that men who are educated are much more likely to contribute than those who are not. Perhaps access to knowledge and information has a correlation to comprehension of feminist thought (also known as human decency).

Even so, you'd think as adults that we'd be eager to clean up after ourselves, rather than leave it for others regardless of the cleaners gender. As a self-sufficiency thing. I guess some people never grow up.

[zulaika]

your irreverent tone toward this woman (a salient member who carries half the weight of humanity) is highly appalling... try not to bear false agsinst what you preech dear...If it is your aim..to cast me over to a point of view I have failed to grasp...

[CushiticReflections]

There are still obstacles but I think that it's great that a variety of careers and positions are available to women. Though I do think that it's important for fathers to spend a lot of time with their children, motherhood is very different from fatherhood and that children need their mothers to be more available to them than their fathers. In the cases where some women are just not maternal, then that may not be true but that's my general opinion. So I think that there needs to be more consideration given to career women who are mothers, especially if they have young children.

As for the differences in wage, black men - in general - earn lower wages than white women. Black women are the lowest paid workers. So as minorities, we face additional challenges when living in the West. Even if some Somalis don't consider themselves to be "black" (what makes one "black", after all?), it's ignorant to assume that Somali women do not face additional challenges that white women or perhaps Asian women don't face in the West, based on racism. So I would be interested in reading articles or studies on the issues black working mothers face rather than a study that most likely focused on white women and not others.

[grandpakhalif]

There's a reason why the world had gender roles for thousands of years, now I am not against women education and careers but they need to know their place is still in the kitchen and the bedroom.

I gain absolutely nothing by marrying a woman who has an income but doesn't cook me shit. I might as well have a gf.