1 That is so offensive on so many levels, I am not even sure where to begin. Let me ask the rhetorical question, "Where is the study showing that the more educated the man, the less housework he does?" I mean, this is the year 2004. EVERY man I know is perfectly capable of cleaning a toilet or mopping a floor. As a matter of fact, when my husband I split cleaning duties, his job was doing the floors. I did the laundry. I hire someone to come in once a week and she and I work side by side. I work just as quickly as she does to get the tasks finished. I hired her as a compromise in an ongoing argument my spouse and I were having with regard to housecleaning. I'm not going to sit around all day, cleaning house when my children need volunteers at their school or there are errands he needs run for his business or any other myriad things that come up. NOR does he expect me to. I like you am not going to plop my kid in front of the TV while I clean. Sorry. They NEED me to read to them or play with them. Here is my other rhetorical question, "How do a--holes like this get grant money?" Just goes to show that we are so far from equal anything in this country, it's not even funny.

2 I was just getting ready to comment....Ohhh wait til Bou sees this one. She's gonna hit the roof. You see, she's very well educated, she runs a tight ship, takes damn good care of her family and can cook like...well, check out the Carnival of recipes for the answer to that one. I can't believe they received grant money for this. Amazing. And I got news for them.....education has NOTHING to do with your ability to do housework. Some of the biggest slobs I know never got past the 10th grade (can you say "trash"). Oh...and I have friends that also have PhD's and couldn't clean their way out of a paperbag. It's in a person's make-up. I come no where near you and Bou when it comes to education. But I'm willing to bet we live fairly similarly. This grant money would have been better spent figuring out how to tell a good melon from a bad one in the supermarket. THAT would have at least been useful.

3 Well according to this survey my house should be a pig-sty and we eat nothing but take-out food. I am very anal about my house, comes from being an engineer. Everything has a place and it is in that place. Nobody can clean my house to my satisfaction, not even my hubby. And as for cooking, I love it. And were not talking about some pre-packaged, open the box and throw it into a pan every night thing either. I do my fair share of scratch cooking. Ignorant people, agh.

4 I'm going along the "comparative advantage" angle. Silly waste of time, that study.

5 I was so looking forward to Boudicca's response to that. And she didn't disappoint! Tammi and Machelle said the rest. Nothing to add :-)

6 OH? And I'm chopped liver? [sticks tongue out at Sally] :-)

7 Phew. Glad I read the comments. I was so mad when I read this that I was ready to let loose. Ok, I have to add to Bou and Machelle's comments. Who says all the work engineers do is 'stimulating to the mind'? How many times did I have to write mind numbing documents or read them? Ugh. Actually I have a lot more to add, but am trying to contain myself. Argghhhh. What a stupid article.