And I quote: "The only possible solution to the housework discrepancy is for everyone to do a lot less of it."

Which brings us here.



The Case for Filth. (The New York Times, 12/6/2013)

Young men are doing as much housework as their dads did.     So why won’t men pick up a broom? Why won’t they organize a closet? Why can’t housework be converted — as the former burdens of food preparation and child rearing seem to have been for some men — into a source of manly pride and joy? Why would housework be the particular place to stall?

Mentioned in this article.

• "The Dirt on Clean" by Katherine Ashenburg.  
• "What is Household Work?  A Critique of Assumptions Underlying Empirical Studiesw of Housework and an Alternative Approach."  From the Canadian Journal of Sociology.  
• [indirectly]  "Testing The U-curve: The association between women’s housework and economic dependency".  Yale University, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course.
• "The Role of Occupation."  American Journal of Sociology (2012)