Divorce Rates and Domestic Chores

Over the weekend, the Irish Times have dedicated a good bit of space to the recently launched report suggesting a strong correlation between sharing of unpaid work and divorce. Brian O’Connell’s article offers 3 married couples view on sharing of domestic chores, and after a somehow dry opening refers to some excellent quotes from the author of the report highlighting the reports relevance for feminist theory.

Ann Marie Hourihane’s article ‘Housework and radio companions in decline’ links the decline in time spent on house work to the decline in the number of radio listeners, and includes this brilliant observation:

‘Housework is one of the few subjects on which our politicians have nothing to say. This must be because the male politicians do not want to investigate yet another system from which they benefit so shamelessly(…)’