What about the women who aren't CEOs?
There's good news for the Florida women who make it to the top, as colleague Cindy Goodman's story about an FIU survey recounts. Husbands of these highly successful women help around the house and with the kids, and they also choose flexible schedules with their own jobs.
That's all good and dandy, but don't you wonder if the underlings have the same kind of situation at home? Most working women I know still do the bulk of the chores and child-rearing, no matter their achievements in the office. Sure, more husbands are sharing the load, but it's still not 50-50.
And no matter how you paint the picture, it's exhaustingly difficult to work eight or nine hours (at least) in the office and then come home to wage the normal battles of raising a family. CEO's and professional women can afford nannies, housekeepers and cleaning ladies. But what about those who aren't CEOs?
That's all good and dandy, but don't you wonder if the underlings have the same kind of situation at home? Most working women I know still do the bulk of the chores and child-rearing, no matter their achievements in the office. Sure, more husbands are sharing the load, but it's still not 50-50.
And no matter how you paint the picture, it's exhaustingly difficult to work eight or nine hours (at least) in the office and then come home to wage the normal battles of raising a family. CEO's and professional women can afford nannies, housekeepers and cleaning ladies. But what about those who aren't CEOs?
posted by Ana Veciana-Suarez at 8:30 AM
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Sharing household chores is something that each couple needs to negotiate. I like to have a clean house - my husband likes to cook. So, he does the cooking and I do the cleaning.
The child rearing was mostly mine until our kids stopped being babies. At that time, he began to do more things with them.
Now, that the kids are older, they help with the chores. We ALL live in the house, therefore....
I don't think I know any couple where the husband does not help around the house. Those days are gone, gone, gone.
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