as a woman’s financial contribution approaches that of her husband’s, her housework decreases. It doesn’t actually become equitable, you understand. Just less unequal. But only up to the point at which her earnings equal his. After that – when she starts to earn more than him – something very curious starts to happen. The more she earns, the more housework she does.3 In what sociologist Sampson Lee Blair has described as the ‘sadly comic data’ from his research, ‘where she has a job and he doesn’t … even then you find the wife doing the majority of the housework.’
I occasionally hear of men who claim they don't know how to use a washing machine, but they're capable of custom-building PC. Or men who can't change a diaper, but can clean a car. Or men who can't cook dinner, but manage complex fantasy football teams. Pathetic.
