I said before that it was a link to an article (Slate) that contained a link to the data. If that link is no longer functional, I wasn’t aware of it. You might have said that before, instead of going off on a tirade of accusations. I’ve since linked you the Mint data in another comment, but I’ll put it here again for your convenience.
I’ve also linked you at least three other stories that cite other studies that have all pretty much come to the same conclusion. I’m not preaching to the choir. I’m preaching to people like you who have no earthly concept of how much time women spend each day taking care of their families. I know you have no earthly idea because you indicated it in your initial comment as if it were pie in the sky and have continued to scoff at it, despite the fact that I had cited at least two other studies in the OP. That’s how I know that you owe your wife an apology — because you haven’t, by your own admission, the faintest concept of how hard she really works.
Excerpts from the Mint analysis:
“Private Chef: The American Personal Chef Association reports that its personal chefs make $200 to $500 a day. Grocery shopping is another chore that needs to be factored in. … Grocery delivery services charge a delivery fee of $5 to $10. Total cost for services: $1,005 per five-day work week times 52 weeks = $52,260 per year.
“House Cleaner: Professional maids or house cleaning service providers will charge by the hour, number of rooms or square footage of the home…. Total cost for services: $118 per week times 52 Weeks = $6,136 per year.
“Child Care: The International Nanny Association’s 2011 survey found that nannies make $600 to $950 per week in gross wages, on average. Total cost for services: $600 a week plus perks/benefits times 52 Weeks = $31,200 per year.
“Driver: Companies like Red Cap, which provides personal drivers that use the client’s own car as the means of transportation, offer a glimpse into the cost of this homemaker task. An elite membership which includes 365 days of unlimited, round-trip service is $1,000 a year plus 33 cents to $2.03 per minute. Total cost for services: $1,000 per year plus [(estimated miles driven 8,000 miles at 50 miles per hour) times 60 minutes per hour times $0.33 per minute] = $4,168 total per year.
“Laundry Service: Professional laundry services charge by the pound…. Total cost for services: $0.90 per pound times 4 pounds of clothes per day times 5 days per week times 52 weeks = $936 total per year.”
“Lawn Maintenance: This could include things such as mowing, debris removal, edging and trimming the lawn. These services cost about $30 a week, on average. Total cost for services: $30 per week for 52 weeks = $1,560 total per year.”
“The Bottom Line: Total for a year of all services is: $52,260 + $6,137 + $31,200 + $4,168 + $936 + $1,560 = $96,261 per year.”
Here are some of the other links, since you seemed to have missed them the first time around, as well as the fact that I’m already married, something that I mentioned in several paragraphs in the OP. You ought to read more carefully in future, before going off on a knee-jerk tirade.
That was one of the stories that was also cited in the OP.
But the “housework gap” largely stopped narrowing in the 1980s. Men, it seems, conceded that they should be doing more than before — but then, having half-heartedly vacuumed the living room and passed a dampened cloth over the dining table, concluded that it was time for a nice sit-down. In Britain in 2016, according to the Office for National Statistics, women did almost 60% more of the unpaid work, on average, than men.
According to the analysis conducted by University College London (UCL) and published in the journal Work, Employment and Society, “gender norms remain strong” when it comes to household chores.
The researchers assessed data from more than 8,500 heterosexual couples who were interviewed for the UK Household Longitudinal Study between 2010 and 2011.
They discovered that women do approximately 16 hours of household chores every week, while men do closer to six.
I’m not going to discuss this with you any further. I’ve wasted enough time on it already.
