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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw that. I was curious about some of the phrasing in this paragraph:

"American women tend to do more housework than women in other countries—about four and a half hours each week, on average. “Meanwhile, Spanish women only spend about an hour and a half a week on housework, Brazilian women spend only 1.6 hours a week,” they write. But “French women spend almost no time on housework at all. French men, on the other hand, spend 1.2 hours a week on housework, well more than the .8 hours a week spent by American men.” (Ladies, your secret, s'il vous plaît!) Also, “Japanese and Slovenian men do the most housework, at 1.3 and 1.4 hours a week.”"

From that, it's not clear to me whether Spanish and Brazilian men are spending more time on housework than American men. It seems to glory in French men doing 1.2 hours per week of housework but, if you do the math on the 15 minutes per day it says American men do on housework, that works out to 1.05 hours per week -- or a difference of about 9 minutes per week. (Though there is some conflicting information in the article, in one place, it says 15 minutes per day while in another, it says 0.8 per week -- which would be 6.9 minutes per day.)

But, why the hell are American women spending 3.15 hours per week on housework when nobody else comes close? [/quote]

I haven't read theough the responses, but I'm from Peru and women there might not be able to afford a washer and dryer, but we sure as hell manage to afford a housekeeper.  American women are CRAAAAZY with their near religious obsession with doing it all. My frienfs and meighbors look at me like I'm nuts that i have someone come in 3 days a week to do housekeeping here. I dont ever do laundry, change sheets, sweep floors or vaccuum.[/quote]

Wait a sec....the only reason Americans don't have housekeepers is because it's expensive here. Is it as expensive in Peru?! 
I don't know anyone who loves to clean (I actually have one crazy friend but she's an exception!)'[/quote]

I find that American womennhave a bit of aartyr complex whrn itncomes tondomestic duties.

It absolutely is less expensive in Peru, even the most remotely middle class peiple have help. Especially afyer a woman has kids and doesn't work, she still has someone come in and help with cleaning, cooking, and childcare.it isnuniqiely American that you don't make room in the budget for domestic help. The woeld over women have figured it out that it is easier to outsource these things.

I moved here when we were 24 years old. I made 50k/yr and still had a weekly housecleaner and didn't even have kids.[/quote]

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