Why do women try to make house work look equal to a day job.?

to get recognition that she is also doing something worth while.

I would say that women who say this have not had a manual labor job before. I am becoming a stay at home mom soon, but I have done some jobs that have made me realise just what a blessing being a housewife really is. A lot of women who are housewives don't realise how easy it is these days. Disposable diapers instead of having to wash the cloth kind, and dishwashers instead of having to wash your own dishes. A dryer instead of hanging out the washing on a clothes line or clothesrack. We have so many modern conveniences that being a housewife is a lot easier now than it used to be. And for those i'm thankful.

One good proof that housework is a very undemanding job, both from an effort and a time point of view, is the mass of daytime TV shows all aimed at housewives.

If housework were so tough a job, housewives would have no time to watch those shows. Doing a load of laundry is maybe 10 minutes of human time to do, mostly sorting and then loading and unloading the machines that actually do the job.

Housework is the easiest gig out there. It's far easier than 99% of wage jobs. Oh, and professional housecleaners don't need eight hours to do the work, a team of three workers can be in and out of a house in an hour, once a month.

Maybe you don't do it properly. I do a day job and have a cleaner.

Thank God. Housework is boring and monotonous and never ending.

Oh, and I garden. I'm a serious gardener. Dig holes, and use a pick axe. I'd rather dig a trench than do two hours of ironing, clean windows, scrub floors, wash walls and clean an oven.

Your choice.

Edit: Jimraya - I answer to myself. And my standards are pretty high. And the pay is lousy.

Housework isn't hard, but it still has to be done. Kids hanging around your ankles doesn't make the work simple. But that said, I don't get it that you say women think it of it as equal to a day job. I don't think they do. I certainly have never thought of it that way, but then I've already had a paid job and have never stayed at home doing just housework. How boring!

You're right. and keeping the house clean is for their benefit as well and they are living in it without paying rent (Which the working guy does). Even if one is single once has to do housecleaning unless one wishes to live in a pig sty. Cooking is the same. They eat the food that is prepared from food bought with the husband's money. If he didn't work, there would be no money for food.

It must be also remembered that the husband has to put up with a lot of humiliation to earn the salary that pays the rent and puts food on the table. He doesn'T like being yelled at by his boss either, but he puts up with it for his family's sake.

Females complain too much and frankly, I wouldn't waste time with them. The current crop of so-called 'feminists' who whine about everything bore me.

But you are comparing it to a physical outdoor job. Most people work in much easier jobs than gardening. Many people sit behind a computer all day, or make phone calls, or scan groceries. None of that is hard either. If you compare doing a few loads of washing, vacuuming the floors, cleaning the bathrooms, making the dinner, doing the dishes, etc to sitting at a desk all day it's much more physical and harder work.

It's a job like any other. It's less brain work than some jobs but more leg work. It's less leg work than some but can be more brain work depending on the tasks you do on any given day. Why does it even need to be a competition? Can we not just value everyone's efforts?

I find it hilarious when feminist go about how housework is worth blablabla -- If that is so, arn't feminist mothers horrible for not paying their children for the house chores they do because after all --- they themselves claim that its one heck of heck-tick job right ---

Secondly, feminists themselves act icky around housewives so I dont know what authority they actually have over the subject -- Thirdly after all this if you still believe that house work is as difficult as a job --- well, answer the following

-What is the duration of "house job" that you do ?

- How much breaks you take in between the "work"

-How many people do you have to answer to for your "work"

-What sort of "job" pressures do you face while doing your "house work"

and then lets compare that with ACTUAL WORK --

Are you talking about outdoor chores? Or actual paid work?

Society is p*ssy whipped. Men bend over backwards to please them yet all they do is a whole lot of nothing. I asked a question the other day about who is supposed to pay for bills and I was almost always told to pay because I'm male and even though women wants something too and have jobs and money of their own.

There's no leave for house work.