Family Forum / Marriage / Marriage / February 2007

All of the responsibilities of maintaining home and hearth should be
shared equitably by all family members up to their ability to do so.
That not only includes household chores, but earning the money to
provide for the family, and maintenance of the house and other
belongings, and whatever else is required by the family.  All of it
should be thrown into one giant pot, and then all of it redistributed
to all family members up to their ability to contribute.

To isolate one aspect of providing for a family, and then claim that
this aspect alone should be shared equally, and then not share other
aspects equally is inherently unequal.

And so your question can only be answered if the rest of the picture
is known.  If the 'man' of the house is the only income earner, and
does all of the outside chores, and does all of the project work, then
I'd find it difficult to agree that he should also do half the
household chores.  However, if the 'woman' of the house puts as much
effort into providing revenue to the household, and puts just as much
effort into outside work and projects, then the 'man' of the house
should be doing his fair share of chores.

IOW, total effort by both the man and the woman should be
approximately equal relative to their abilities.