So last week I saw a segment on the Today show that stated that men spend more time doing housework that women do"”by about 8 seconds. That's right, 8. Unfortunately I could not find the actual video from the show, but trust me ladies, it exists. I did find another blog that reported the same results based on the Today show segment, but all the links to the video were "broken." … [Read more...]
“Help” Versus “Doing Your Fair Share”
by Tara Pringle Jefferson In my Family Theories class last semester, our professor made it a point to address the underlying assumptions about gender roles we were harboring. Several of us in the class were married women and we would begin to talk about our husbands and families during the course of the discussion. Frequently we would begin our conversations with … [Read more...]