@PadmaLakshmi@NewYorker@BLS_gov@pewresearch American Time Use Survey (with 2017 as an example) shows that women on average are not spending enough more time with their kids, doing chores, or anything else to justify women's lack of time working.
On average, men just work more in America (considering both paid and unpaid).
Women care for and help household members 2.08 more hours per day than men in the most extreme case presented by Table 8A, but men work 6.43 hours more per day than women.
@PadmaLakshmi@NewYorker@BLS_gov@pewresearch Similarly, comparing the men from Table 8B to the women from Table 8C (where the youngest child is under 6), women do household activities for 1.91 more hours per day than men in the most extreme case presented by Table 8A, but, again, men work 6.43 hours more per day than women.
@PadmaLakshmi@NewYorker@BLS_gov@pewresearch Let's do the math: Men: Women:
Household activities: 1.26 3.17
Caring for household: 1.42 3.36
Work-related activities: 6.57 0.00
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Total: 9.25 6.53
Who is doing more?
@PadmaLakshmi@NewYorker@BLS_gov@pewresearch By comparing the men from Table 8B to the women from Table 8C (using the youngest child under 6 column), we see the situation where women are unemployed and spending the most time caring not only for the children but the whole family.
@PadmaLakshmi@NewYorker@BLS_gov@pewresearch Maybe women are forced to stay home with their kids and that causes the gap. If true, women with no kids should be working the same amount as men in the workforce as there is no reason not to since there is no reason to be on call and no extra household or child care duties.
@PadmaLakshmi@NewYorker@BLS_gov@pewresearch Whether you consider all currently childless folks (Table 8A) or just the ones working (Table 8B), women spend less time on paid labor and related activities and women spend less time working considering both unpaid domestic labor and paid labor added together. The pattern holds.
@PadmaLakshmi@NewYorker@BLS_gov@pewresearch In light of the data (outlined hereinabove), it would seem that he would be taking on more responsibility than she would (on average), @PadmaLakshmi, which makes this comic hilariously false when dealing with the general or typical case (
@melJsaysso I think it is time for a history lesson.
@AaronHeikkila, @BigHeadMafia,
@vhjvh70477682, and @newboots1977, you all may find it interesting.
Mel Jones (@melJsaysso) has read this before.
@melJsaysso @AaronHeikkila @BigHeadMafia @vhjvh70477682 @newboots1977 tl;dr — the reason child support exists isn’t for the sake of the children.
Child support exists because women—unlike men—were viewed by society (including by women) to be incompetent in handling their finances and incapable of working enough to care for their kids themselves.
@melJsaysso @AaronHeikkila @BigHeadMafia @vhjvh70477682 @newboots1977 The law in what’s now the United Kingdom🇬🇧 was changed (adopting the “tender-years doctrine”) because of the whinging of an adulterous ex-wife () and the United States📷 soon followed with the “Talfourd Act” (named after the British reformer).spartacus-educational.com/Wcustody39.htm
@barrenessblack2 @LanceVader @AsherSummerson @Kekistan42069 @TonyChiaroscuro @vermithrax12 @RAndrewCastel @QuintusHisp @MRA_ResourceHub @morgana1776 @Prometheus52960 @Jjacques444 @TheOldPoet @annavrmac @Oneiorosgrip @Edith1502483868 @h3rbsandash3s @JohnDavisJDLLM @StinkyGrrrlz @PhilipWill29881 @Cary_wh @JGainsbourgh @FionnMacCool @MKMartinWriter @Minx171717 @chels_spoonie @PeonyPrincess27 @C3ve1iaSays @chels_eaalberta @loulabelleaus @Apistevist1 @TXWomenRESIST @nunya_pat @bad_fido @snide_sally @surf_witch @dose_of_Close @Oneantifem @JohnWat59766564 “[F]ree single women could own property and make contracts… [as femme sole]. In the British colonies, these women possessed the same legal status as men, enabling them to serve as the heads of… households, own… businesses or property, and pay taxes” ().amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhibit…
@barrenessblack2 @LanceVader @AsherSummerson @Kekistan42069 @TonyChiaroscuro @vermithrax12 @RAndrewCastel @QuintusHisp @MRA_ResourceHub @morgana1776 @Prometheus52960 @Jjacques444 @TheOldPoet @annavrmac @Oneiorosgrip @Edith1502483868 @h3rbsandash3s @JohnDavisJDLLM @StinkyGrrrlz @PhilipWill29881 @Cary_wh @JGainsbourgh @FionnMacCool @MKMartinWriter @Minx171717 @chels_spoonie @PeonyPrincess27 @C3ve1iaSays @chels_eaalberta @loulabelleaus @Apistevist1 @TXWomenRESIST @nunya_pat @bad_fido @snide_sally @surf_witch @dose_of_Close @Oneantifem @JohnWat59766564 “Under the New Jersey State Constitution, femme sole women that owned property equating to 50 pounds were eligible to vote” ().
Women weren’t male property and could avoid the status of femme coverture by not getting married thereby remaining a femme sole.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhibit…
@barrenessblack2 @LanceVader @AsherSummerson @Kekistan42069 @TonyChiaroscuro @vermithrax12 @RAndrewCastel @QuintusHisp @MRA_ResourceHub @morgana1776 @Prometheus52960 @Jjacques444 @TheOldPoet @annavrmac @Oneiorosgrip @Edith1502483868 @h3rbsandash3s @JohnDavisJDLLM @StinkyGrrrlz @PhilipWill29881 @Cary_wh @JGainsbourgh @FionnMacCool @MKMartinWriter @Minx171717 @chels_spoonie @PeonyPrincess27 @C3ve1iaSays @chels_eaalberta @loulabelleaus @Apistevist1 @TXWomenRESIST @nunya_pat @bad_fido @snide_sally @surf_witch @dose_of_Close @Oneantifem @JohnWat59766564 “[M]odern Americans [believe] that women were… chattel or property in previous eras…. However, a more apt comparison would be that… women in early New England possessed the legal status our society currently designates for minor children” ().libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/archives/uncov…
@wanderwoman47 @JohnDavisJDLLM @AsherSummerson @StinkyGrrrlz @Oneiorosgrip @barrenessblack2 @TheOldPoet @Cary_wh @vermithrax12 @annavrmac @JGainsbourgh @FionnMacCool @Edith1502483868 @Kekistan42069 @MKMartinWriter @Minx171717 @chels_spoonie @PeonyPrincess27 @TonyChiaroscuro @C3ve1iaSays @chels_eaalberta @loulabelleaus @Apistevist1 @TXWomenRESIST @MRA_ResourceHub @nunya_pat @bad_fido @snide_sally @surf_witch @dose_of_Close @Oneantifem @JohnWat59766564 Consider that now about 82% of single parent homes in 2021 are being run by single mothers (, table A3; ).
The Boy Scouts of America (@boyscouts) “today announced that it will rebrand to Scouting America, reflecting the organization’s ongoing commitment to welcome every youth and family in America to experience the benefits of Scouting” (), which makes sense.
While this is not the invasion of male spaces some make it out to be, this is (in an amusing way) feminists indirectly delivering a massive gut punch, if not coup-de-grâce, to the Girl Scouts of the United States America organization (@girlscouts).
Both Cub Scouts and Scouts are sex segregated.
“Family packs have both boy and girl dens that meet separately” (, p. 8).
@AsherSummerson @DanSull36510584 @WudanStudent @bellapromote @vermithrax12 @darcyagain1 @Oneiorosgrip @Edith1502483868 @WrightSet86065 @MKMartinWriter @Kekistan42069 @annavrmac @StinkyGrrrlz @MRA_ResourceHub @Cary_wh @nunya_pat @brendan_loves @JGainsbourgh @FionnMacCool @Minx171717 @chels_spoonie @PeonyPrincess27 @TonyChiaroscuro @C3ve1iaSays @barrenessblack2 @chels_eaalberta @loulabelleaus @Apistevist1 @TXWomenRESIST @bad_fido @snide_sally @surf_witch @dose_of_Close @Oneantifem @JohnWat59766564 “Thus far, our results are consistent with a shift away from the breadwinner-homemaker model of marriage to a more egalitarian form…” (), but egalitarian marriages are demonstrably in the minority of marriages making up about a third of marriages.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
@AsherSummerson @DanSull36510584 @WudanStudent @bellapromote @vermithrax12 @darcyagain1 @Oneiorosgrip @Edith1502483868 @WrightSet86065 @MKMartinWriter @Kekistan42069 @annavrmac @StinkyGrrrlz @MRA_ResourceHub @Cary_wh @nunya_pat @brendan_loves @JGainsbourgh @FionnMacCool @Minx171717 @chels_spoonie @PeonyPrincess27 @TonyChiaroscuro @C3ve1iaSays @barrenessblack2 @chels_eaalberta @loulabelleaus @Apistevist1 @TXWomenRESIST @bad_fido @snide_sally @surf_witch @dose_of_Close @Oneantifem @JohnWat59766564 Your source () WAY overestimated the number of egalitarian marriages that actually exist ( | ) due to the sample that they used and that distorts their findings and reduces the applicability of their findings. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… pewresearch.org/social-trends/… pewresearch.org/social-trends/…
@AsherSummerson @DanSull36510584 @WudanStudent @bellapromote @vermithrax12 @darcyagain1 @Oneiorosgrip @Edith1502483868 @WrightSet86065 @MKMartinWriter @Kekistan42069 @annavrmac @StinkyGrrrlz @MRA_ResourceHub @Cary_wh @nunya_pat @brendan_loves @JGainsbourgh @FionnMacCool @Minx171717 @chels_spoonie @PeonyPrincess27 @TonyChiaroscuro @C3ve1iaSays @barrenessblack2 @chels_eaalberta @loulabelleaus @Apistevist1 @TXWomenRESIST @bad_fido @snide_sally @surf_witch @dose_of_Close @Oneantifem @JohnWat59766564 Your source again: “When the breadwinner-homemaker model of marriage dominated American family life, deviations from this ideal were associated with a heightened risk of divorce, especially for wives who outearned their husbands” ().ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
@AsherSummerson @WudanStudent @annavrmac @brendan_loves @JGainsbourgh @Oneiorosgrip @vermithrax12 @FionnMacCool @Edith1502483868 @Kekistan42069 @MKMartinWriter @Michael_B_1970 @Minx171717 @chels_spoonie @PeonyPrincess27 @TonyChiaroscuro @C3ve1iaSays @barrenessblack2 @chels_eaalberta @loulabelleaus @Cary_wh @StinkyGrrrlz @Apistevist1 @TXWomenRESIST @MRA_ResourceHub @nunya_pat @bad_fido @snide_sally @surf_witch @dose_of_Close @Oneantifem @JohnWat59766564 @tomleykis Did you know that “unmarried, childless women under 30 who live in cities” already out-earn men pursuant to @TIME Magazine (), @usnews & World Report (), and @PolitiFact's @PunditFact ()? content.time.com/time/business/… usnews.com/debate-club/sh… politifact.com/punditfact/sta…
@AsherSummerson @WudanStudent @annavrmac @brendan_loves @JGainsbourgh @Oneiorosgrip @vermithrax12 @FionnMacCool @Edith1502483868 @Kekistan42069 @MKMartinWriter @Michael_B_1970 @Minx171717 @chels_spoonie @PeonyPrincess27 @TonyChiaroscuro @C3ve1iaSays @barrenessblack2 @chels_eaalberta @loulabelleaus @Cary_wh @StinkyGrrrlz @Apistevist1 @TXWomenRESIST @MRA_ResourceHub @nunya_pat @bad_fido @snide_sally @surf_witch @dose_of_Close @Oneantifem @JohnWat59766564 @tomleykis @TIME @usnews @PolitiFact @PunditFact "[O]nce we control only for one variable—hours worked—and compare men and women both working 40-hours per week in 2017, more than one-third of the raw 18.2% pay gap reported by the BLS disappears" (). fee.org/articles/a-new…