Something women have known since the beginning of time...

I certainly don't spend 7 hours a week doing household chores for my husband. He cleans his own clothes, does his dishes, and takes out the trash at least 1/2 of the time. I'm not a maid, as am a working woman that doesn't have time to be my husband's maid. I think they asked women that are home during the day, as I certainly wasn't asked and don't know any working women that was asked.

LOL...Ain't that the truth! They had to do a study on this why? They could have called anyone of us who is married or has been married before and we could have told them that.

That seems to be the case when I lived with my father and brothers. They both expected me and my mom to pick up after them. I've heard that not all men are like that, but I find that hard to believe because I see the same pattern almost everywhere. I remember one guy insisting that he cleaned his house, but, I'm sorry, I just couldn't believe him. Every woman I know has to clean up after their men, so it's hard for me to see otherwise. Funny thing is that the men really think that they contribute equally to the housecleaning. I sure hope the guy I marry either cleans up after himself, or can afford someone to do the cleaning for us.

Duh, what else is knew LOL I knew that all along and I'm sure all women did as well, and if they didn't they learned that as soon as they got married:) Being single also has a very nice slimming side effect. You see, we don't have to cook big meals all the time. Sometimes we just want a yogurt and a piece of fruit and with time the benefits of such practice pay off :):):)

Now wait a minute! I may not be a math genius, but something does not compute. If "we" get 7 hours of extra housework each week how come "they" only save one hour? Are they saying it take us 7 times as long to do the same thing? Or that men don't have the same standards of cleanliness? Or what? I knew a gal who worked 55 hours a week at her job and as she was starting to get fed up with no "help" around the house, she kept a record over the course o9f several months and found that she did 45 hours of housework every week. This woke her up and she dumped the guy. She was sort of a perfectionist, and I always thought she should have persuaded her teenage kid to pull his weight, but even so I think the 7 hours of extra housework is an underestimate. Fortunately for me, my guy does more than his share of the housework, and if not as perfectly as I think I might do it, I've learned to lighten up a little.