evilcyber.com
  • Home
  • Workouts
    • Home Workout Plans
    • How To Build Muscle
    • How To Get Toned
    • Home Workout Equipment
    • Advanced Workout Topics
    • Other Workout Programs
    • Important Workout Lingo
    • Recommendable Books
  • Cardio
    • What Is Cardio?
    • How To Start Cardio
    • Home Cardio Exercises
    • Cardio Or Weights First?
    • Best Time For Cardio
    • Does Cardio Burn Muscle?
    • Cardio On Empty Stomach?
    • HIIT – Doing It Right
    • Cross-Training
  • Weight Loss
    • The Secret To Weight Loss
    • Gain Muscle And Lose Fat?
    • Exercise And Weight Loss
    • Diet Reviews
    • Weight Loss Myths
    • Weight Loss Supplements
  • Nutrition
    • Healthy Nutrition Explained
    • Bodybuilding Nutrition
    • What Are Carbohydrates?
    • What Is Fat?
    • What Is Protein?
    • Nutrition For Cardio
    • Marathon Nutrition
    • Exercise On Low Carb
  • Supplements
    • 3 Supplements That Work
    • BCAA Supplements
    • Beta-Alanine
    • Creatine
    • Dextrose Supplements
    • Energy Shots
    • Make Your Own Weight Gainer
    • Multivitamins
    • NAC
    • Testosterone-Boosters
  • The Rest

Losing Weight

Lack Of Household Chores Makes Women Fatter?

Lack Of Household Chores Makes Women Fatter?

  • March 1, 2013 9:05 pm
  • 4 comments

Share this Article

  • TwitterTwitter
  • FacebookFacebook
  • DiggDigg
  • StumbleuponStumble
  • RedditReddit
Author Nicole visit my website

According to recent research, one reason American women are getting fatter is because they spend less time on doing laundry, cooking and other household chores.

It Behoovers You

Did you vacuum today with one of those 20 lbs monsters your grandmother had? No? Then you cheated yourself out of, uh, exercise. That is pretty much what a recent study argues makes today’s American women fatter.

That and spending less time on household chores in general. According to the researchers, when they compared “time-use diaries” of women from 1965 and 2010, the typical stay-at-home woman today spends 13.3 hours per week on household chores and in 1965 it was 25.7 hours. Which they say results in an appreciable difference of 360 kcal less burned per day.

On the other hand, the women of the 60s spend about eight hours per week on watching television, today it’s seventeen (today of course including all those valuable and enriching moments spent on Facebook).

Is Saying This Sexist?

The cry “sexist” is already swelling up around the poor professor who led the study, no matter how much he in the New York Times stresses that it’s not a call for women to do more househould chores. Christa Desir, young adult author and self-declared feminist, is already frothing at the mouth, together with a number of other prolific women’s rights activists.

Uh, it does really sound sexist. At a first glance and if you have the attention span of an ADD sufferer and if logical reasoning isn’t really your forte.

Because, heah, ladies, there is actually little reason to doubt that we do have to spend way less time on household chores than our mothers and grandmothers. And who could argue that we don’t do what we do with superior hardware and it takes a lot less effort? There also is the inconvenient fact that many stay-at-home women didn’t exactly take women’s lib as a call to do more fitness, you know? And, finally, it’s not only the guys who do spreadsheets on a PC the entire day but still eat like they don a hard hat day after day to build a dam called Hoover (ten points for cheap pun).

I bet if you reintroduced the 20 lbs vacuum behemoths from 1965 and sold them as “fat loss miracle that cleans at the same time” you would get takers, too. But that not’s female, that’s human nature for you.

Picture courtesy of “Pete“.

Help me spread knowledge and share this:

  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)

Search

Subscribe to EC

Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Most Read

  • teen home workout Home Workout Plan For Teenagers
  • strongman eugen sandow flexing his muscles The Eugen Sandow Workout You Can Do At Home
  • pills Why Bodybuilders Should Say No To NAC
  • woman doing pushups Perfect Pushup Vs. Hands: Which Is Better?
  • How To Do Pull-Ups Without A Pull-Up Bar

Latest Comments

  • No comments

4 Comments

  1. Greg Baumbach says:
    March 1, 2013 at 9:12 pm

    It’s a smaller reason, to be sure. 360kcal doesn’t hold a candle to the increase in caloric intake over the same period due. This is also why American men are getting fatter, too, and they were never much accused of being big housework fiends.

    Reply
  2. Jess says:
    March 2, 2013 at 1:28 am

    We eat more heavily processed foods and move less. It is a no brainer isn’t it! I don’t think it is a call for women to turn to their previous status but pointing out we aren’t as active. I think you’re right I bet you could sell an old school vacuum cleaner as a weight loss aid! Sad isn’t it!

    Reply
  3. Dr. J says:
    March 2, 2013 at 4:24 pm

    I remember seeing old predictions from the 1960’s about how women wouldn’t need to do housework because of the new modern technology, and that people would not have to work five days a week because of the new modern technology.

    Didn’t turn out as expected, did it??

    Reply
    • evilcyber says:
      March 2, 2013 at 5:09 pm

      I personally am still waiting for the flying cars! 🙂

      Reply

    What do you think?

    Click here to cancel reply.


    • About
    • Contact
    • Copyright
    • Disclaimer
    • Privacy Policy
    © Copyright 2022 — evilcyber.com. All Rights Reserved.

    Evilcyber.com uses cookies

    More info about these little buggers in the Privacy Policy.

    Close
    loading Cancel
    Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
    Email check failed, please try again
    Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.