It's official. Aussie men make the worst husbands.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:52 pm

As far as housework is concerned. According to a British study Australian women should be looking at getting a Scandinavian man.

Just saw it on the news so I'll get back with the printed version.

lou lou belle · Post by **lou lou belle** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:02 am

fuzzywuzzy;1225454 wrote: As far as housework is concerned. According to a British study Australian women should be looking at getting a Scandinavian man.

Just saw it on the news so I'll get back with the printed version.

I dont want to be too steriotypical Fuzzy wuzzy but on spending time in Australia and meeting Australian men, they are a little more laid back when it comes to the housework. Some of the Aussie guys wifes did far more than the norm.

I am very lucky my husband does about the same as me, and likes his home looking clean etc..

I would say he's actually perfect in every way, but i dont want people reaching for the sick bags

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:16 am

Yes, I think you will need to supply some evidence, Fuzzy, to support such an "official statement" - especially in the light of other threads you and I have posted in today.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:27 am

British study claims Australian men make worst husbands in the world. - life - LIVENEWS.com.au

You might ... expect to see women preferring to remain single rather than face the prospect of spending more time doing household chores.

Dr Almudena Sevilla-Sanz

Australian men make the worst husbands in the world because they loathe helping out with the housework, a British study claims.

An economist from Oxford University found that women wanting to settle down were better off finding a bloke from Scandinavia, the United States or Britain than Australia.

Study author Dr Almudena Sevilla-Sanz said that based on her study of 12 developed countries, men and women were both more likely to cohabit or marry if they believed their partner would help out with the household chores and childcare.

But it appears that when it comes to finding a husband willing to help out, Australian women have a tough time.

Dr Sevilla-Sanz's study ranked Australia as the least egalitarian society, making its men unattractive marriage partners because they were more unlikely to do household chores.

Norway, Sweden, Great Britain, the US and Northern Ireland were judged to be the most egalitarian countries, making their men the most attractive marriage partners.

Next were the Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, Austria and Australia in last place.

"In egalitarian countries you might, in principle, expect to see women preferring to remain single rather than face the prospect of spending more time doing household chores," Dr Sevilla-Sanz said.

"However, this study shows that in egalitarian countries there is less social stigma attached to men doing what was traditionally women's work.

"For instance, if paternity leave is the social norm, more men take it.

"This leads to men in egalitarian societies taking on more of a domestic role so the likelihood of forming a harmonious household becomes greater, resulting in a higher proportion of couples setting up households in these countries."

The study's findings were based on a survey of 13,500 men and women aged 20 to 45 from each of the 12 countries.

Each was asked about their attitudes to gender, housework and childcare responsibilities.

The study found that women living in less egalitarian countries were 20 to 50 per cent less likely to live with a man compared with women in more egalitarian societies.

The study, titled Household Division of Labor and Cross-Country Differences in Household Formation Rates, is due to be published in the Journal of Population Economics.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:31 am

I have to admit (and this is only a personal snapshot but......) I saw three prams being pushed in France in one day with not a female in site. I'd be hard pressed to see that in Melbourne. and I wouldn't hold my breath to see it in my small town.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:35 am

lou lou belle;1225457 wrote: I dont want to be too steriotypical Fuzzy wuzzy but on spending time in Australia and meeting Australian men, they are a little more laid back when it comes to the housework. Some of the Aussie guys wifes did far more than the norm.

I am very lucky my husband does about the same as me, and likes his home looking clean etc..

I would say he's actually perfect in every way, but i dont want people reaching for the sick bags

well it's interesting demography I'm seeing these days. I'm now with a much older man than me and he does half my house work and he doesn't even live here. He also enjoys making the kids lunches............they look at him like he's crazy because they have never seen that before . (but they enjoy the lunches.......except when they are rude to him so he gets them back by cutting their lunches into quarters....doesn't go down well with teenagers :yh_rotfl )

Now he has grown up in an era before me and i thought was really backwards in regards to women.....I'm eating my hat now.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:21 am

This is a press beat-up of a "study" conducted in twelve "developed countries" and as yet unpublished in any academic journal.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:27 am

Yep!! but it makes a good thread

would you like me to wait until it's in the "Journal of Population Economics. "?

I can hold off.

You see all threads put up can go off in all directions ...........Let it flow pammy, let it flow.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:35 am

Aussie men make the worst husbands? Woohoo! Promotion!;)