8:46 pm

Hey?

This is beyond weird - married men earn more if their wives were home-makers?

"Academics Elena Bardasi and Mark Taylor found that a married man whose wife does not go out to work but is primarily responsible for the cooking and cleaning earns about 3 percent more than comparably employed single men."


Hey! If I had a man that really earned emough to keep me and him happy, then yes! I don't think I'd have a problem doing housework. But I'd better clarify - clean and neat enough to welcome a man home? Sure! But clean enough to eat your dinner off the floor?


Thank god the MasterChief isn't THAT absurd.

4 comments:

Doug The Una said...

My professors used to pound into my head "Correlation is not causation." It sort of makes sense to me that more a man earns the more likely their wife is to decide to stay home. Or maybe I should get married to a wallflower.

Anonymous said...

that's weird.

carrie said...

i agree with doug.

Fiona Kathleen Hogan said...

i thought it was weird too. on top of that - the percentage (3%) increase is pretty small.

oh well.