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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend of mine does very little around the house and is a pack rat. Her DH cooks, cleans, cares for the kids when he gets home from work. My DH does more cleaning than I do but I cook so it evens out.

Assumptions/stereotypes are lame.[/quote]

This was a study. Not a stereotype. Learn the difference. [/quote]

Thanks but I do know the difference. I was referring to several posts which made it seem like all men were unable to help out around the house. You sound bitter. [/quote]

I'm not bitter, darling, I'm just a sociologist who happens to work in a similar field. The data is the data. The point of the study isn't to tell the little nuanced anecdotes behind the data; it's to show the data.

My husband and I divide labor fairly evenly, in a way that works for us. That said, the study stands on its own without my personal input.[/quote]

The data is the data.  But the data doesn't say "All women do X. Or all men cause Y."  And this report is clear that it doesn't actually understand WHY any of this happens.  Just that it does. Where the stereotypes and assumptions come from posters speculating that the correlation is caused by lazy men. 
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