Philosophers from Cambridge University are using “affordance theory” to explain why men can be more discerning when it comes to household chores.
found that globally, women spend 40% more time on unpaid work than men. Obviously, patriarchal attitudes underpin this gap. But what if there’s also a psychological, or philosophical, reason why these inequalities occur?Sleighing Season: Badoo’s latest dating trend is all about finding the joy in staying single this Christmasare using “affordance theory” to explain why the perception of what can and should be done in terms of domestic labour can differ between men and women.
McClelland and his colleagues believe that the neuroscience around this comes down to whether or not an individual perceives something like a dirty floor or crumbs left out on the counter as a “trigger for physical action”, such as cleaning it up. They suggest that women feel that physical trigger more often than men.
So how can this wildly unequal domestic pattern be fixed, so women aren’t forever feeling inclined to clean up after everyone?
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