Do The Dishes Together!

Marriage And Beyond

oi-Staff

By Staff

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 11:29

Doing the dishes with your partner everyday could guarantee a happy conjugal life.

Couples who share the responsibility for paid and unpaid work, show higher average of happiness and life satisfaction than others.

Couples are more likely to be in a shared roles when women have more resources and when the couple is less religious.

The complementary traditional family model in which men do more paid work and women do more unpaid work is declining, but still remains the largest category.

The shared roles model is advantageous to society in terms of gender equity and its ability to maximise labour force participation by all adults. This leads to marital bliss.

It also leaves women less vulnerable in the case of separation, divorce or death of a spouse.

Such kind of a model suggests equal opportunities for men and women to access education and work, provide conditions that facilitate work life balance and promote greater involvement of men in household chores and childcare.