And if it’s a woman’s house, I’d venture to say we’re just happy to be there - dust, dirt and all. We generally don’t care if a place is a pig sty. But if you asked the study subject - would you not hang out with or befriend this or that person based on their room’s messiness? - You would probably find that the “messiness-based” judgment is markedly less harsh among men. What I think is interesting is that the “judgmentalness” hypothesis assumes that the study subjects’ bias - in rating the “messiness” of two (female/male) rooms - equals negative judgment in practice. I think the theory presented above is plausible, but that some inherent differences in prioritization traits between genders is more likely. I’ve not often met a male who reacts with sheer frustration to clutter and general messiness in a house. It seems to be a more prominent trait among females. I would have to say that in general, there’ve been several women I’ve known through the years who feel this profound, deep-seated irritation and unease with messy surroundings. Another possibility is that men see the same mess, and as a general matter, it simply bothers them less. I’ve heard this theory before and it’s a plausible hypothesis. Image Credit: “Cleaning” by John Paul Goguen is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Original Scientific Article: Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms – SAGE Journals Popular News Article: Men do see the mess – they just aren’t judged for it the way women are – Hopefully future studies will further investigate these questions, as well as confounding factors like work, family, and economic class. Alternatively, women may find cleaning less unpleasant, or perhaps use cleaning as a means of procrastination, where men might not do so. This suggests that women bear the burden of cleanliness more intensely than men.īecause women and men appear to see the same mess, one hypothesis for the observed difference in cleaning times is that women may more strongly anticipate being judged by their peers, especially by other women. Participants – regardless of gender – held “Jennifer’s” room, even the ‘tidy’ version, to a much higher standard and were more likely to judge “Jennifer” negatively. Why, then, do women clean more? Respondents participating in the study were randomly told whether the messy photo depicted either “John’s” or “Jennifer’s” room. On average, men tidy up for 10 minutes every day, but cleaning consumes a third of women’s 1 hour 20 minutes of household chores daily. Both men and women found a messy room just as messy and a tidy room just as tidy. Researchers showed hundreds of participants random photos of a cluttered living space. This new study attempts to understand the interplay between individual preferences and gender expectations in housework. The common myth that men just cannot see the dirt has been busted by a study published in Sociological Methods and Research. Housekeeping is an arena that houses gendered behavior even today, despite the increasing trend where both the man and the woman of the household work and ‘bring home the bread’.
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