Women who run the home are less likely than men to be interested in career advancement at work, a new study has found.
Women who shared household decisions with a partner rated workplace goals, such as a promotion, higher than women who did not equally share household decisions.
While men and women both placed equal value on the importance of household decisions, the work goals of men remained unchanged despite differing household power positions.
Researchers said the findings show that it is the power aspect of household control that dampens womens interest in power outside the home.
Craig Minns
Self-employed
This research is obviously hopelessly flawed. The author doesn't seem to understand that women in the home are under the oppressive control of The Patriarchy. How does the author expect to be taken seriously when ignoring the most basic axioms of feminist theory and relying on mere empiricism?
Alice Gorman
Lecturer in Archaeology at Flinders University
If I'm reading this correctly, as it seems to be expressed slightly obscurely, a woman who works and runs the household, effectively doing two jobs, is less interested in workplace promotion than a man who works and is not responsiblef or the running of the home? And, where household responsibilities are equally shared, the woman is more interested in workplace goals? It seems far more likely that in the first instance women are simply too tired to bother about the other stuff, rather than having some innate need for power being satisfied by choosing which nappies and cleaning products to buy, and constantly reminding their partners that a little help cleaning the bathroom would be appreciated. If that's what domestic power means, you can keep it.
I'll assume this brief report is poorly worded and read the original study.