Heather Mills Quotes

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

Why women will do all the household works? It should change.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing clarity and less anxiety than ever-conflicted mothers.

I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

I don't see anything degrading about marriage or homemaking, but my husband and I pool the money we earn, along with the jobs around the house.

Housewives run the home and sacrifice a lot, but many people forget that.