Comments on: Do Women Really Work More?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:05:25 +0000

“We often hear the claim that women do two jobs, one in the marketplace and one in the home, while men do only one.”

And these claims rely on a crude reductionism that asserts that a job is a job and all jobs can be lumped together. You will hear how “women working full-time” etc. But what exactly does full time mean? does it mena leaving at 3:00 to pick up a kid from some school event? Doe sit mean taking six months off or a year of for personal reasons? Does it mean working 10 or 11 hour days? If they specify, it destroys the argument.

By: Toysoldier

Toysoldier — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:46:03 +0000

My interpretation is that feminism has been so successful at getting its message across (women work more), that no one has really bothered to check the facts.

I would argue that feminists have been so successful because no one bothered to check the facts. There is a strong enough push to be politically correct and not question certain — typically progressive liberal — positions that falsehoods go unchecked. Worse yet, when it is questioned it very rarely makes national news. Had this study suggested the opposite it would have been all over the cable news networks and featured prominently on the major news websites.

By: Feckless

Feckless — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:43:14 +0000

Good one….I like your myth collection. Not surprisingly there is data dbunking all of this myths.

Same topic different studies -> http://feck-blog.blogspot.com/2008/09/men-vs-womenwho-works-more.html

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:41:35 +0000

What I find odd about most of those claims about women doing more work is that while they happily add up everything women do outside of outside the home paid work they will explicitly ignore everything men do outside of outside home paid work.