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The Rise of the Remote Husband

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We've spent the last 50 years telling women they shouldn't be house wives. The results are as predictable as the sun rising. I don't understand how people can pretend that home management is an easy job that you can pick up whenever you need. Somehow it's feminist to claim that a profession with thousands of years of history and tradition by apprenticeship is easy enough to pick up in an afternoon when you need it.

Do you think a woman should have a choice whether she remains a housewife or gets a career? Can a man do the “housewife’s” job?

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Do you think a woman should have a choice whether she remains a housewife or gets a career? Can a man do the “housewife’s” job?

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I’d like to see empirical evidence that supports any of those claims.

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I never thought about it before reading this but most couples I know fall into this category. Probably because they largely fit the "tech guy marries non-tech gal" stereotype.

I don't know that it means anything, but I'm a tech guy married to a tech gal and we still fit this category. In our case, it's because her work project is classified. The company itself allows full-remote work if your project is unclassified, but you can't get a SCIF in your house. It's amusing to me that this article claims it is usually the case that the husband is still not cooking and cleaning even though he's h…

Why would someone's work location impact what house chores they do. It's still work-time not home-chores time.

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I don't know that it means anything, but I'm a tech guy married to a tech gal and we still fit this category. In our case, it's because her work project is classified. The company itself allows full-remote work if your project is unclassified, but you can't get a SCIF in your house. It's amusing to me that this article claims it is usually the case that the husband is still not cooking and cleaning even though he's h…

Why would someone's work location impact what house chores they do. It's still work-time not home-chores time.

Because, freed from the time lost to a commute, they may have an extra 1-3 hours per day at home which is not owed to their employer.

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Lay off the pods and youtube for a bit.

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Consider living with someone from a culture that doesn't treat growm men as toddlers who can't do the basic job of taking care of their living environment without a woman to baby them.

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Consider living with someone from a culture that doesn't treat growm men as toddlers who can't do the basic job of taking care of their living environment without a woman to baby them.

Which culture is that?

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Why would someone's work location impact what house chores they do. It's still work-time not home-chores time.

Because, freed from the time lost to a commute, they may have an extra 1-3 hours per day at home which is not owed to their employer.

Even if you take commute time out of the equation, working from home frees up a lot of time for tasks that aren't all active time.

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I don't know that it means anything, but I'm a tech guy married to a tech gal and we still fit this category. In our case, it's because her work project is classified. The company itself allows full-remote work if your project is unclassified, but you can't get a SCIF in your house. It's amusing to me that this article claims it is usually the case that the husband is still not cooking and cleaning even though he's h…

Sounds like you are an outlier.

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I don't know that it means anything, but I'm a tech guy married to a tech gal and we still fit this category. In our case, it's because her work project is classified. The company itself allows full-remote work if your project is unclassified, but you can't get a SCIF in your house. It's amusing to me that this article claims it is usually the case that the husband is still not cooking and cleaning even though he's h…

Why would someone's work location impact what house chores they do. It's still work-time not home-chores time.

My Tuesday/Thursday:

Load washer and dishwasher before signing in.

Put clothes in the dryer and put away dishes while my food cooks for lunch.

Sort away my now-dry clothes after work.

Spending a couple mins mid-day to make machines do chores while everyone else is out at lunch shouldn’t sound unreasonable.

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