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[quote=Anonymous]NP here. I think it's a combination of "wiring" and shirking. It's "wiring" (in quotes, because it may actually be socialization more than biology) in the sense that I do think men tend to be more linear/serial in how they approach work. So they aren't really trained to multi-task well. But that doesn't mean that they can't manage a complex set of tasks (wake up child, dress child, put child on potty, feed child, put away dishes, etc)...they would just do it in series vs. partially in parallel. That's where the shirking comes in. They get away with not doing it, because there's someone to pick up the slack...and they know it.

One thing I can't really tell is if men end up being less efficient, so everything takes longer. I've been watching DH, who runs a very large division at his company, during the past year, and I think he might be less efficient than I would be. Running a household is pretty challenging, even though the individual tasks are somewhat mundane, because of the sheer variety of things that have to be done and the degree of unpredictability that irrational and erratic children add to the mix. We undervalue this work significantly, because women have traditionally done it for free...and it's in the economy's interest to pretend that work doesn't have a lot of value and doesn't take a lot of skill.[/quote]

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