Does this report equalise the difference in housework reported by hours worked outside the home? What about house/garden maintenance (which is traditionally the man’s job)?
Case in point being - i spent 1.5hrs today fitting the family cars winter tires, stacking the summer tires away, while my wife was playing “atsumori”. I never once thought of moaning about it to her because Im happy that Im helping her and my kids drive safely
This is self-fulfillment prophecy at its best. Women taking a much larger role in house chores, forcing them to not able to prioritize professional career as they would like to.
Besides, being at work doesn't necessarily mean being productive. There is a well known trend in Japanese companies where worker artificially stretch out their work day, not because it's necessary but because they need to save face. And then how do you count 飲み会、二次会?
And then obviously, the traditional "men's house chores" (aka maintenance) are very much lower in frequency comparing to the daily tasks that mostly fall into women. When there is a huge systemic gap, women need to raise their voices to get it addressed, because obviously there are husbands who are like "I changed car tires today, that means we are equal and I don't care about the fact that you might be doing 95% of other household chores".
Does this report equalise the difference in housework reported by hours worked outside the home? What about house/garden maintenance (which is traditionally the man’s job)?
Case in point being - i spent 1.5hrs today fitting the family cars winter tires, stacking the summer tires away, while my wife was playing “atsumori”. I never once thought of moaning about it to her because Im happy that Im helping her and my kids drive safely
This is self-fulfillment prophecy at its best. Women taking a much larger role in house chores, forcing them to not able to prioritize professional career as they would like to.
Besides, being at work doesn't necessarily mean being productive. There is a well known trend in Japanese companies where worker artificially stretch out their work day, not because it's necessary but because they need to save face. And then how do you count 飲み会、二次会?
And then obviously, the traditional "men's house chores" (aka maintenance) are very much lower in frequency comparing to the daily tasks that mostly fall into women. When there is a huge systemic gap, women need to raise their voices to get it addressed, because obviously there are husbands who are like "I changed car tires today, that means we are equal and I don't care about the fact that you might be doing 95% of other household chores".