A little housework poll

[ailbhe]

This isn't as carefully thought out as I wanted it to be but I've had a hell of a day and topped it off by cooking us all dinner while watching both children - Emer on my hip, Linnea playing in the kitchen. Then we reached a point where Rob only had to hold Emer for her to have screaming hysterics - we've been working up to that for a couple of weeks now, he has always ignored small babies by default and she's really noticing - and now I've gotten her off to sleep and perhaps I will have an uninterrupted, hot cup of tea.

At least Rob is prepping tomorrow's dinner, which will go in the slow cooker. Tomorrow had better be better than today.

[Poll #852294]

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I assume for the last question you mean "Yes, for my generation, when I was a child/teenager." (As opposed to now.)

When I was living with my parents, none of us had a lot of set chores. My Mom did most of the housework and cooking. My Dad would cook occasionally. My Mom would enlist us to help as needed. However, the few set chores we had did seem to be gender-divided. For example, I was never encouraged to cook, while my sisters were. On the other hand, I got just about all the outdoor duties, such as mowing the lawn, and anything that required physical strength.

(I also got tasked with everything to do with computers and electronics, but that was more because I was the only person who had either any clue or any interest. Whether that was a gender stereotype issue or not is hard to say. My sisters initially had equal access to the computers and more access than me to stereos and radios and other electronics, but they found them boring and stopped showing an interest.)