Quote (thesnipa @ Jun 17 2021 12:27pm)
im cherry picking your contradiction. you want to include house chores of millennials but exclude homemakers of the boomer era entirely from the calculation. and of course millenials dont live in fully automated houses, we're talking about nominal factors. more millenials live in apartments and dont shovel or mow anything, dont repair anything. the average millennial today couldnt change the trap on a bathroom sink i'd wager, thats a shift.
my point is that neither commute nor home chores should count. we SHOULD exclude both homemaker hours and millennial chores, and commute. the comparison should be # of hours paid on the job if we want apples to apples. if it includes ubering, or other side hustles, and millenials win, fine. id just be interested to find out the real number without fluff.
Oh, in that case millenials win by a wide wide margin. Boomers have one worker doing 50 hours, millenials have two workers each doing 40+. If you exclude the wife as a worker since she's doing 0 hours, the boomers have 50 hours/worker, but that doesn't account for one partner just not having to work at all which would drag down the average by around a factor of 1/(2*percent of dual income housholds). 75% of of families were single earner in 1960 and vs 40% today, and mothers have nearly doubled their labor force participation since the 70's and that doesn't count the mothers who do gig work since they aren't counted in labor force statistics.
The only way boomers win in hours worked is if you purposefully exclude the partner in single income families from the equation.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/12/17/1-the-american-family-today/This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Jun 17 2021 11:41am