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Question 1

How do men react to having masculinity threatened?

Answer 1

They do fewer chores

Question 2

Is housework distribution universal?

Answer 2

No

In come cultures (France, Japan) men do most housework

Question 3

When unemployed, do men and women do more or less housework?

Answer 3

Both do more

Question 4

What happens when the wife earns more then the husband?

Answer 4

the greater the income disparity, the less housework the husband does

Question 5

Why do men do less when out earned?

Answer 5

being out-earned by their wives threatens mens’ masculinity, so they react by doing less cleaning, a stereotypically feminine task.

Question 6

Past research by Rutgers psychologists Janell Fetterolf and Laurie Rudman has shown that as men and women make more money, they both feel entitled to do less housework and childcare

What happens in reality?

Answer 6

only for men that this entitlement translated to actually taking it easy around the house; women continue to pick up toys and do laundry even if they feel like they shouldn’t have to.

Question 7

What is the only exception to this double-injustice?

Answer 7

Cooking

men upped the amount of time they spent cooking each day.

And cooking didn’t follow the same gender-threatened trend cooking did: the more their wives earned, the more time the men spent in the kitchen.

Question 8

Why is cooking an exception?

Answer 8

Cooking, they speculate, has become manly—more of a leisure activity than a chore

This coincided with a rise in foodie culture, which might have contributed to men’s growing interest in the culinary arts.

Question 9

Why is cooking interest a good sign?

Answer 9

the rise of the manly chef might be a sign that eventually cleaning and childcare will become similarly de-gendered.