I just heard that women....

[cheermom1]

Do about 90 min MORE of work than a man does. which includes house work. which is why women are not in the mood as men are. Solution: men help her out more so she isn't as tired or drained so she can concentrate more on you!!!

 

[Barbossa]

Put that in writing and you've got a deal!

 

[KAMLEM]

90 min. more per day?

 

[wvjules]

My relationship is pretty even, heck he may even do more since I don't do the laundry at all. We both do the dinner, dishes and housework. The only thing I do that he doesn't is pack DD's lunch. I see that as my responsibility. I'm a lucky lady.

 

[cheermom1]

Awesome for both of you.

my dh and I are pretty even too. I take care of the inside of the house and he the out side. I hate doing the out side stuff. However the kids have chores they have to do so I'm not too bogged down with house work. but if your kids are small I can see how the woman does more.

Also though with us I'm the one that goes to the school and takes care of that stuff, I also take the kids to apts. and I shop for everyone. We both work. Although I think we are better off if I do those things and not dh. LOL

 

[bored]

Do about 90 min MORE of work than a man does. which includes house work. which is why women are not in the mood as men are. Solution: men help her out more so she isn't as tired or drained so she can concentrate more on you!!!

or she could cut 90 minutes of cell phone chatting with the other hens and have time for the extra work!

 

[Mermaid02]

Not at my house- my dh works all day and then he comes home and either does yard work or some home improvement project. The man works circles around everyone I know.

 

[mom2aredhead]

Not at my house- my dh works all day and then he comes home and either does yard work or some home improvement project. The man works circles around everyone I know.

Sounds just like my husband...not even sure how he functions on the amount of sleep he gets sometimes. He's a keeper.

 

[okeydokey]

Ever since our kids were born I've worked part time outside the home and he has worked full time. When the kids were small I still worked much longer than he did since I nursed and was doing night duty as well. Now that the kids are older and somewhat self sufficient, I would say he works longer than I do. He, however, always has to be doing something and I have no problem sitting with a good book. I will be adding hours at work soon so I guess we'll be pretty even again.

 

[cheermom1]

I wasn't meaning this to be a debt about what men and women do. I just found it an interesting statement I hear on the Tyra show. I think what they meant was that in general women do 90 min more of work then men b/c of kid issue mainly.

ETA: the point the Tyra show was making that if your woman is tired and doesn;t want to do anything with you then maybe help her a little to lift a few things of her shoulders and she would be a little more willing to be with you. That was all.

 

[Mermaid02]

I wasn't meaning this to be a debt about what men and women do. I just found it an interesting statement I hear on the Tyra show. I think what they meant was that in general women do 90 min more of work then men b/c of kid issue mainly.

ETA: the point the Tyra show was making that if your woman is tired and doesn;t want to do anything with you then maybe help her a little to lift a few things of her shoulders and she would be a little more willing to be with you. That was all.

I say results are skewed for the answer the test taker wants. The Tyra show is geared towards women- the results were pleasing to women.

 

[SAHDad]

It sounds like it is based off "The Second Shift". IIRC, some of the methedology was flawed (comparing housework done by women who worked part time with housework done by men who were working 50 hours per week; counting the entire time that the load was in the washer/dryer/dishwasher as work, instead of the time spent loading or unloading; not counting mowing the lawn, shovelling snow, etc; did not count commute time). That's not to say that the basic notion of sometimes giving the other person a break and doing chores which are not normally "yours".

FWIW, anecdotally, if you hang out on the SAHD forums and message lists, you'll quickly see that, even though SAHDs are doing the vast majority of housework in their households, very few of them are reaping the supposed extra benefits that Tyra implied.

 

[SOnotLayuh]

My hubby is great and does the majority of the work around the house

... which is great because I'm a graduate student

 

[kydisneyfans]

When my wife gets up at 2:00 AM for work, then she can talk.

 

[WDWBarb]

My DH works 7 hours a day and I work 10-12. If you throw in housework, my numbers go even higher and his stay about the same.

 

[Pluto 2]

they work 90 minutes more because they work slower

 

[Wish I lived in Fl]

Holds true in my house. Wish it didn't.

 

[Monte Cristo]

or she could cut 90 minutes of cell phone chatting with the other hens and have time for the extra work!

Isn't that the truth.

 

[cheermom1]

some of you missed my point! oh well each to their own. but like I said my dh and I are pretty even.

 

[Mermaid02]

some of you missed my point! oh well each to their own. but like I said my dh and I are pretty even.

I don't think anyone missed your point- they just think Tyra was wrong.