Unpaid Labor in the Home / Sexual Harassment

While reading Unpaid Labor in the Home it really made me think about how my house was run while I was growing up.  It said that most homes the women work an additional 19.4 hours a week doing housework, while the men only work 9.7 hours doing it. Becuase of all of the additional hours women get more stressed out and feel anxious.  While I was growing up I feel like my dad contributed to much of the housework; but like the book did say it was mostly outside work like cutting the lawn, or seasonal, like putting up Christmas lights, and more.  He sometimes did help out with other housework such as vaccuming, and doing the dishes.  If my dad could tell that my mom was under a lot of stress he would offer to do more like cook dinner, do dishses, sweep the floors, etc.  Not many guys I don't think are like my dad becuase he does work really hard on his job, and he had a big role as a parent in my up bringing (it wasn't just my mom's responsibility to raise my brother, sister, and me).  So overall I think that my dad did much more than the average man.

Sexual harassment is a big problem at the work place, and a huge problem in schools.  Men like to think that they are superior to females, and I think that the way they feel like they need to express it through a sexual way.  As I was reading this part of the book I couldnt help but think of the movie North Country.  This movie showed how women were starting to work "man jobs" (while working in the mine) and how the men were not happy with this what so ever!  They would put fake penises in the ladies lunch boxes, write degrading words in the women's room with feces, and would ask women for sexual favors.  One of the girls father worked at the same mine she did and never said a word to the other men because he didn't want to stand out and embarass himself.  Throughout the movie the females take the issue to court and you learn much about a lot of the different acts that were put into law that will protect women agaist behavior like this.

Here is a preview to the movie North Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkVQm0QPyY