Of course, many more women don’t want to work full time, either, with around 20 percent saying they would prefer to stay at home with their kids and 45 percent wanting to work only part time. It’s still the case that the most men – 75 percent – want to work full time, compared to only about 35 percent of women.
Men still work a greater percentage of time outside of the home, but the workload is slowly evening out, with 21 percent of women and 37 percent of men earning paid income, 18 percent of women and 10 percent of men performing housework, and 14 percent of women and 7 percent of men taking part in childcare activities.
When it comes to couples who earn dual incomes, around 6 percent more women say they are happy with their lives, and men are twice as likely to say they are unhappy with life in general. Many wonder if perhaps the growing balance between childcare, housework, and paid work is the reason for men’s growing dissatisfaction. Many more wonder why a reduction in institutionalized sexism hasn’t led to higher success for women outside of the home.
There seem to be many possible contributing factors for women’s apparent absence in various fields. One is location: Men aren’t home as much as women, leaving women to take care of the home necessities. Another is field: Women are the dominating force in education, but men are populous in engineering and MBA programs. Only the Wharton school comes close to producing an MBA program with as many women as there are men, but it still contains around 58 percent men. For men, high paying jobs are good incentive not to stay at home.
Source: CollegeDegreeSearch.net
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