Nowadays in many countries women have full time jobs. Therefore, it is logical to share household tasks evenly between men and women. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

These days, more and more women are joining the

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workforce to financially assist their families in many countries, so some people believe that household tasks should be shared equally between men and women. Personally, I agree with

this

opinion to some extent given the equality between two genders but I

also

think there should be flexibility based on each family’s situation. On the one hand, there is a reason why I think men and women should share responsibility evenly for household tasks when women have

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jobs.

This

is because sharing parenting and domestic responsibilities equally

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important to ensure fairness between males and females. In fact, housework was considered to be women’s responsibility in the past as they were restricted to housewives’ roles and could not provide financial assistance for their families as men did, but

this

is not necessarily true anymore in modern society when women can

also

earn money from their jobs.

Therefore

, it is unfair to them if they have to bear all the family’s burden while their husbands do not involve in house care activities, so separating tasks at home should be applied so that equality in the family can be achieved.

On the other hand

, I

also

believe not everything can be absolutely divided evenly and tasks can be flexible depending on each family’s circumstance.

For example

, in some families, husbands can be responsible for almost all errands at home due to the fact that their wives are

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at work and

hence

cannot have enough free time to support them. Another example is that some women can involve jobs that allow them to work at home and can

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take advantage of their time looking after their family members.

This

means the proportion of household tasks between different genders can vary depending on specific families provided that it is appropriate for them. In conclusion,

although

it is reasonable to share housework’s responsibility equally between males and females to maintain equality between different genders, I believe it cannot always be the case for every family. In fact, wives and husbands can have different levels of housework responsibilities as long as

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onsensus between them is guaranteed.