[HN Gopher] The Rise of the Remote Husband
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The Rise of the Remote Husband
Author : edward
Score : 14 points
Date : 2024-04-04 20:38 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| bell-cot wrote:
| Decades ago, I knew two couples doing the "she heads off to work,
| he stays at home" thing.
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| Both husbands were doing essentially non-remote work at home
| (academia and a home-office business). And had multiple children
| to look after, at home, as part of the deal.
| dudul wrote:
| Can't read behind pay wall. Does the article actually provide
| data or is it just based on the 5 "examples" provided in the
| beginning?
| theonething wrote:
| Don't have time to read it myself right now, but here it is:
| https://archive.is/dh4fn
| ghaff wrote:
| Just some data about the percentage of each gender who can work
| remotely--which isn't all that different in the scheme of
| things. (Slightly higher for men as you might expect.)
| verteu wrote:
| Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/dh4fn
|
| Not much data. Just:
|
| > Different occupations have also had to take different
| approaches to remote working...About half of people working in
| computer or mathematical jobs work remotely full-time. The
| upshot is that, in aggregate, it is easier for men to work from
| wherever they please. A survey carried out by McKinsey, a
| consultancy, found that 38% of working men had the option to
| work remotely full-time, compared with 30% of women. Roughly
| half of women report being unable to work remotely at all,
| compared with 39% of men.
| ulrashida wrote:
| There doesn't appear to be much of a point to the article.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| https://archive.today/dh4fn
| paxys wrote:
| I never thought about it before reading this but most couples I
| know fall into this category. Probably because they largely fit
| the "tech guy marries non-tech gal" stereotype.
| nonameiguess wrote:
| I don't know that it means anything, but I'm a tech guy married
| to a tech gal and we still fit this category. In our case, it's
| because her work project is classified. The company itself
| allows full-remote work if your project is unclassified, but
| you can't get a SCIF in your house.
|
| It's amusing to me that this article claims it is usually the
| case that the husband is still not cooking and cleaning even
| though he's home. I'm cooking and cleaning all the damn time.
| With all the time spent at home, cooking has become my favorite
| hobby. I am quite often sneaking in prep for some elaborate,
| showy dinner while waiting for a build to finish or on a call
| that doesn't require me to present or speak.
| vinni2 wrote:
| Sounds like you are an outlier.
| autoexecbat wrote:
| Why would someone's work location impact what house chores
| they do. It's still work-time not home-chores time.
| theodric wrote:
| Because, freed from the time lost to a commute, they may
| have an extra 1-3 hours per day at home which is not owed
| to their employer.
| picklerish wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20240404213835/https://www.econo...
| lchengify wrote:
| I have a lot of tech / healthcare couples in my friend group and
| this is definitely the arrangement. Especially true since
| healthcare careers have very different timelines than tech.
|
| In once instance, one partner is a clinician and absolutely has
| to be on site 5 days a week, not counting on-call. The other
| works 100% remote but the company is global, so depending on the
| week they may be on Europe time or Australia time.
|
| This is definitely a work arrangement I couldn't have imagined
| being common 10 years ago. This shift will likely be one of the
| defining economic changes between the 10's and the 20's.
| mschuster91 wrote:
| Not all that surprising - "care work" of all kinds, at least if
| going by distribution of unpaid care work [1], kindergarten [2]
| and later education [3] or nursing [4], is _utterly dominated_ by
| women. Almost all care work by definition has to be done at the
| workplace, whereas (as we discovered in Covid) a lot of
| traditional "men jobs" (i.e. almost everything outside of
| mining, industry and security) can be done from home.
|
| It's going to be an interesting next few years, as this shift can
| and does have serious implications not just on workplace and work
| condition equality question, but also if it will fuel further
| discontent among those men who have to go commute to a workplace
| vs those men who can enjoy the ability to work from home.
|
| [1] https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-
| repor...
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| [2]
| https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2024/02/12/over-96-...
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| [3]
| https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=EAG_PERS_SHARE...
| (you have to change the filter to "Pre-primary to tertiary
| education", then scroll down to the totalization rows at the
| bottom)
|
| [4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099804/distribution-
| of-...
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