谢振礼 雅思范文: 家务分工 20180915
IELTS Writing Task 2
China 2018-09-15
Topic:
In many countries nowadays, more and more women have full-time jobs as men, so there is logic that men and women should share the housework tasks equally. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Essay: 谢振礼 范文讲义 120篇 RMB60 ielts360toefl@hotmail.com
In many parts of the world, happy relationships between working men as husbands and working women as wives do not count on gender equality regarding housework. The principle of equal rights does not necessarily imply the logic of sharing household duties equally. Much in the traditional way, the majority of family women would like to have the lion’s share of making their home clean and comfortable and do not expect things to change.
With dual-income families, it seems logic that the domestic burdens should be equally shouldered as an issue of gender equality as well as happy relationships. These days, there is evidence that the gender gap in housework across the modern world has been narrowed gradually. Men are increasingly getting involved in women’s housework, particularly if both are employed in full-time jobs. For example, some husbands or partners are having their share of some sort of household duties, such as cleaning, cooking, washing, and looking after children. In appearance, the zero gender gap is becoming a reality, in the sense that, since both men and women are equally the family’s bread-earners working from nine to five, both should share the housework tasks equally. Otherwise, if both men and women work daily outside of home from sunrise to sunset, the housework is likely to be never done.
For happy relationships, the logic of men and women equally sharing the housework is often not as important as what it seems. Ironically, the main reason for the persistence of inequality at home may be women themselves. Even in relationships in which the duel-earner couple aims to share the domestic burdens, most women would like to keep their men away from traditional tasks and childcare-giving activists. So, despite the best intentions of men, their women might think that, although sharing household chores may do no harm, yet it may do little to contribute to happy relationships. On this issue, there may be no need to seek 50/50 gender equality because men will always be men and women will always be women. Given that both males and females are created equal, the two genders are not meant to share housework equally. Believe it or not, most women at heart may not expect this to happen.
It is proper to conclude that happy relationships have little to do with sharing the same amount of housework, even when women like men have full-time jobs. For that matter, gender equality may have a different logic. In real life, the house may be clean enough to be comfortable, and dirty enough to be happy, no matter who does what.
