Corporative Chorus, Happy Marriage Living in 2017, a time when gender equality is widely promoted, more and more women are encouraged to devote themselves into workplace. Females, just like their male partners, are no longer expected to prioritize their families but are encouraged to come home as breadwinners as well. The promotion has drew great impact on family life and changed peoples’ perspective on the roles of father and mother. Consequently, for parents who both have full-time job, how to balance work and family life has become a huge challenge.
After day of hard work, what comes in sight upon entering home are the messy rooms and unfinished housework. Parents glance at each other, pondering who should take over this mess. None …show more content…
Yet, as for other housework, such as wash the dishes or do the laundry, there’s no biological explanation for why mothers end up doing most of them. Therefore, the problem must stem from societal forces, in which people traditionally believe that men should work outside the home and women should stay inside caring the family. The phenomenon can be traced back into childhood. Many studies have found out that girls are asked to do more housework than boys since young. The results carries a lesson for both genders: girls learn that housework falls on to their shoulders, and boys learn that girls will always clean up after them. As a result, when boys get up, they tend to assume domestic chores as women’s work and they are just showing a favor if they help doing …show more content…
They claim that because women often have higher standard of cleanliness, men are likely to fail women’s expectation and arise conflicts between two of them. A Norwegian study shows that since couples often have different normal on how to do the housework “perfectly” ,divorce rates are 50% higher for couples who share the housework compared to those where woman takes on most of the responsibility. “The gender revolution has largely been one-sided: women have entered traditionally male jobs, but men have been reluctant to take on traditionally female activities,” written the sociologist Paula England. Deep societal expectations and gender stereotype have long been playing a role that greatly influence people’s family life. It is actually not the amount of time men should raise that matters but the attitude of willing to commit himself into family work. Men should absolutely do more housework as they think including spending more time on their kids. The revolution of gender roles is an unfinished business, while more and more women entering workplace, society should also encourage males to take place into fields that used to be
After day of hard work, what comes in sight upon entering home are the messy rooms and unfinished housework. Parents glance at each other, pondering who should take over this mess. None …show more content…
Yet, as for other housework, such as wash the dishes or do the laundry, there’s no biological explanation for why mothers end up doing most of them. Therefore, the problem must stem from societal forces, in which people traditionally believe that men should work outside the home and women should stay inside caring the family. The phenomenon can be traced back into childhood. Many studies have found out that girls are asked to do more housework than boys since young. The results carries a lesson for both genders: girls learn that housework falls on to their shoulders, and boys learn that girls will always clean up after them. As a result, when boys get up, they tend to assume domestic chores as women’s work and they are just showing a favor if they help doing …show more content…
They claim that because women often have higher standard of cleanliness, men are likely to fail women’s expectation and arise conflicts between two of them. A Norwegian study shows that since couples often have different normal on how to do the housework “perfectly” ,divorce rates are 50% higher for couples who share the housework compared to those where woman takes on most of the responsibility. “The gender revolution has largely been one-sided: women have entered traditionally male jobs, but men have been reluctant to take on traditionally female activities,” written the sociologist Paula England. Deep societal expectations and gender stereotype have long been playing a role that greatly influence people’s family life. It is actually not the amount of time men should raise that matters but the attitude of willing to commit himself into family work. Men should absolutely do more housework as they think including spending more time on their kids. The revolution of gender roles is an unfinished business, while more and more women entering workplace, society should also encourage males to take place into fields that used to be