"Women's Work"

Today on my way to campus I was trying to find a radio station to listen to and while searching, I came across a conversation on a station, about "womens work." On 101.9 WTMX http://www.wtmx.com/ek.php - Kathy and Eric the hosts. were talking about a survey that was done with 10 women and 10 men about if there really is such a thing as womens work.  The participants of the survey had no knowledge of what the questions would be so this was there answers; 20% of women said that there was such a thing as "women's work" and when the men were asked 90% said that there was such a thing as "womens work." As we can see there is a significant difference in the answers that women and men gave. The hosts continued to talk about why this could have been. Kathy suggested that the 80% of women that said there was no such thing, could be because women who took offense to that terminology. Kathy continues to say that if other terminology would have been used the answers could have possibly been different. This got me thinking of other possible terminology that could have been used (clean light, soft work..)  and  no matter what, it still seemed to come up as an offense to women.  What other terminoology could have been used to make it more neutral?

 They also touched on the actual house work that they feel are attributed to women and men. They agreed that for the most part males have the dirtier work, cleaning outside, keeping maintance of the cars, and the women would deal withe children and other cleanning around the house. In there conversation Kathy stated that  if she made dinner, then she would not be the one to clean up after, and eric agreed to this as well, that it wouldn't be fair. 

We say that things aren't fare and there should be more eqaul work but yet things continue to stay the same, In Gaunlettes book, on page 5 we see national statistics from 2006, that shows how much more time women spent on housework than men. Women on average spent 178 mins a day on housework, compare to 100 minutes for men. Women spent 159 min. cleaning,cooking, washings, and shopping, compared to 71min, that is about half the time women spend. Although these statisicts are older, what are the chances that there has been any change,  if we still continue to see women struggling for their rights.