2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
This responsibility has been proven to play a more important role in family relationships than any other household work.
Daniel Carlson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah.
Women who have to do their dirty work alone feel left out.
Dirty dishes accumulate every day: plates, bowls with a thin layer of fat, soiled cutlery. At the end of a hard day, after several hours at the stove and worries with young children, the question arises before the spouses: who will wash the dishes?
The report Stalled for Whom? Change in the Division of Particular Housework Tasks and Their Consequences for Middle- to Low-Income Couples Council of Contemporary Families, a not-for-profit organization that studies the dynamics of relationships in married couples, says that the answer to this question can significantly affect family relationships.
The study looked at many different household tasks, including grocery shopping, washing, and cleaning. It turned out that it is more important for women in heterosexual relationships to share responsibility for washing dishes than other household chores.
In families where the woman washes the dishes alone, there are more conflicts, family life does not bring happiness and problems in sex appear.
Spouses who share this responsibility equally do better.
According to Daniel Carlson, lead author of the study, women do the dirtiest and most unpleasant household tasks. Most often, this is cleaning after other people: washing, washing the toilet or dishes. At this time, men take out the trash or wash the car - they do things in which they do not encounter other people's dirt on a daily basis.
Over the past few decades, the proportion of male participation in household chores has increased. Today men do housework an average of four hours a week, up from two hours in 1965. It was noticed that from 1999 to 2006 the share of couples who wash dishes together increased from 16 to 29%. On the other hand, this indicator is even more annoying for women, for whom nothing has changed in the family.
Washing the dishes is easy, but your relationship can grow stronger. Doing this together is much easier and faster. For example, one can wash and the other can wipe. Or one is rinsing the dishes, and the other is loading them into the dishwasher.
Carlson says: "My wife and I can do everything together: take out the trash or clean the toilet." But it is the washing of the dishes that keeps the couple working together until the very end. This kind of teamwork, especially on a regular basis, binds partners closer together. They begin to feel that they can handle everything together.
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