Men are not pulling their weight around the house. Apparently if they did the economy would be $1.5 billion better off. Deloitte's who are making the claim says “You have to put a number on it to get people’s attention.” Surprisingly frank about how manipulative axe-grinders are.
Ex National MP Marilyn Waring wades in, “Men underestimate how much unpaid work their partners do, which means all the rest of their answers are highly questionable because they are working from a fiction, not facts.”
Not just lazy then but delusional to boot.
"Men were also fiercely defensive of their leisure time". Selfish too.
That's backed up by men picking the best jobs. "Men also tended to favour work that involved fun things like power tools."
Of course all of this male failing can be corrected if the government steps in and makes some "good policy decisions."
Except... just a minute... along comes a bright young woman who doesn't think men are lazy, delusional and selfish.
“It’s quite fluid for my generation. There’s no expectation to conform, which I quite like,” she said.
Stick that in your pipe Marilyn.
5 comments:
As a male, I'm up first in the morning to feed the pets, empty the dishwasher and make breakfast for the kids. We then both help get the kids ready for school, and alternate on the drop-offs. I then go to work for a full day. Getting home, I make dinner and then do the dishes and supervise the homework. I read the kids a bedtime story and then make the school lunches for the next day. Maybe I have to do some more work in the evening, or maybe, after being on-the-go from 06:30 until 20:30, I might get a couple of "fiercely selfish" hours of leisure time, maybe even spending it with my wife. In contrast, my wife is making beds, packing school bags, sharing the school drop-off, working herself, picking the kids up after school, taking them to after school activities, doing the washing, ironing & folding, cleaning the house, supervising homework.
It is a joint effort.
I also observe that "just 37 per cent of those questioned were men " - so there is a sampling bias, yet instead of acknowledging this, it is attributed to " Not important enough for them to bother."
And the conclusion that because men and women have different views on who does the work, that men are assumed to be incorrect.
Then even more patronizing drivel like "Men also tended to favour work that involved fun things like power tools, she said." Why is it fun? Because the women don’t want to do it, or don't want to learn or use their own biases that it is "mans’ work"?, and therefore they believe it isn't helping out around the home, because the men enjoy it. Ultimately, they then use this biased view so they don't include it in their estimates of the amount of work that men do around the home, so it becomes an 'established fact' that men do less hours.
"Ex Labour MP Marilyn Waring wades in"????
None of this is of any value. As usual it's just about the feels.
"Crunching the numbers on the survey, in which just 37 per cent of those questioned were men, Westpac found men estimated they did 43 per cent of the unpaid work at home, while women thought men did just 31 per cent of it." - What if men underestimated the work they did, and women underestimated their partners work too?
"Waring said this finding was “hilarious, usual and internationally consistent” with research from overseas." - What if there is a bias for all men everywhere to underestimate their contribution? Then of course it would be consistent.
"“Men underestimate how much unpaid work their partners do, which means all the rest of their answers are highly questionable because they are working from a fiction, not facts,” Waring said." - plenty of confirmation bias shown there by a man-hating, lesbian feminist.
Wahlberg, ???? What the heck is wrong with me! Corrected.
National. Believe it, it not.
Post a Comment