George Akerlof Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.

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.

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

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

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.

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

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.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could.

It was seldom suggested that women’s drudgery could be decreased in the meantime by the simple expedient of sharing it with men.

A lot of women feel like they put their ambitions on hold sometimes because they do hold down the household and that's something that has to change.

If I can do it, men can certainly do it. It's interesting now to talk about equality in the home and involving men in household chores such that women don't have to over extend themselves doing both her job and coming home and doing all the household chores. So, that kind of sharing the load is something that I have seen in my family growing up.

We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home.

In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.