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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I guess the wage gap myth can die.  Women are graduating colleges and getting jobs at higher rates.

In any case - let's define housework as well.  I don't vacuum, do laundry very much if at all.  Know what I've done?  Put in new floors, built a garden, all outdoor work, maintain vehicles to the best of my abilities (I'll take it in for complex stuff), replace lighting fixtures, outlets, plumbing (I outsource hard stuff, plumbing can ruin your house if you mess up..trust me), pet upkeep (feeding, walks, vet visits)...

So let's see them break up that.  How many women now the lawn, out in floors, do demolition or repair things?  Not many I reckon.[/quote]

My husband does this stuff.  We make roughly the same amount of money.  He was gone for a year, and it cost me about $2500 to outsource this stuff.  I bet it would cost roughly ten times that to outsource all of the day to day cooking, cleaning, and childcare that I do in addition to my full time job.  It isn't the complexity of it...it's the everyday ness of it.[/quote]

Childcare is only expensive because it's overpriced and people pay it.  Maid service for a 4000 sq ft house like mine is about 175 a month.  We do the real dirty stuff but the vacuuming, cleaning kitchen bathrooms?  That's them.  Sorry your numbers don't add up[/quote]

Plus, my wife meal preps on Sunday and does almost all our lunches and dinners for the week minus a couple of days of going out and it doesn't take her that long.  A few hours.  I pick up what she wants from the store and she makes some good stuff with it.  That's not worth 10 times the amount of money you're claiming [/quote]

I am going to guess that to have someone come in once a week and do alll of the laundry, grocery shopping, meal prep for a family of five, plus cleaning the kitchen and generally tidying up is going to cost about $200 ($20/hr x 10 hours).  Then the $175/mo for deep cleaning.  Then a sitter five days a week to get kids to school at $15/hr x 10 hrs a week plus someone to watch them on Saturdays so he can go to visit a friend $15 x 4 hours/wk.  So, $800/mo + $175/mo + $840/mo= $1815/mo x 12 months= about $22000.  [/quote]

You're moving the goalposts.  Why would you pay for someone to do grocery shopping? Or generally tidying up?[/quote]

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