We have seen how hopelessly inadequate our State education system is because it has been feminized to a large degree in the last 40-50 years. The system has been set up for girls to perform better. We have seen how pathetically inadequate the Victorian Police force has become largely due to it being female dominated. Why would we want to continue down the failed feminist path any further? Many Government departments are now dominated by woman not because they are competent but because they are women. We only have ourselves to blame as we allow people like Eva to dominate our gay/women friendly (men hating) national broadcasters preaching her crap.

Great article.

We do need more creative workplace solutions and it surprises me that the Unions have not taken up the task of collecting a lot of creative ideas and pushing for some of them to be implemented. Especially since they are doing precious little else on workers' behalf.

Since we live in a time of great IT technology, surely it is possible for many of us to work at least one day a week or even two at home - email; letters; data entry; research; report writing; phone calls and what-have-you.

Another poster said something like it would cut down on travel time, traffic, inner city parking and crowding, stress as one rushes from work to school to supermarket to home. No doubt many other benefits could be had. It would even save industry money if they were very clever with it because they wouldn't need extensive offices, parking spaces and furnishings and all of that.

In two parent households, if each parent could work from home some of the time that then that would leave only one or two days per week where non-school age children were not cared for within earshot of the parent.

Another idea would be to have flexible working times - like say we had the choice of starting anywhere between 7.00 am and 10.00 am, as long as we worked the required number of hours per day - approximately 8 at present. If one parent started early and one started late in the day, there would be 1/2 the amount of time needed for childcare of littlies; while someone would be home in time for the end of the school day.

I see that the article has attracted the usual macho tirade. It's a pity that so few are interested in sharing the parenting of their children.

As for men who cherish the notion that it's so much more beneficial for men to hire a housekeeper and visit brothels. Please do follow your chosen lifestyle. Perhaps consider arming yourself with a vasectomy as well.

Pynchme,
It is a very interesting concept regards improving the productivity of paid work so that less time has to be spent at paid work.

It is remarkable that no one has thought of it before.

The same concept could also be applied to housework.

If women are spending more time at housework than men, then perhaps women should be improving the productivity of their housework.

However, I have never heard of any academic feminist suggesting to women ways to improve the productivity of their housework.

Developing ways to improve the productivity of housework may have to be done by evil male, as aware and loving academic feminists can't seem to think of anything.

HRS,

Any involvement in housework by the "evil" men to whom you refer would surely be welcomed by the women in their lives.

I know some other men (the men in my immediate life) who are not only capable but take pride in being self-reliant about attending to their own personal needs.

I wonder, though, about the source of your apparent belief that women are obliged to do the housework for everybody else. Are "evil" men unable to cook and clean up after themselves ? Why shouldn't they do that? What is it about being male that entitles them to the choice of whether to do such humble duties, or not ?

Title aside, had no time for Eva Cox. Great comments though.

Pynchme,
Perhaps much of the so called women’s housework is being spent on the phone and watching day time TV. It is interesting that the day time TV programs for women start just after the children go to school, and finish just before they come home.

The aware and loving feminist Eva Cox places great value on men. See previous posts.

She is lucky she is employed in a feminist infested university. Few other places would have her after the comments she has made about men.