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RELUCTANT BREADWINNERS: Men are being kept at work despite a desire to spend more time with families
3 April 2007
Being the breadwinner was once a proudly masculine role.
These days men are happy sharing the responsibility - and housework - with their wives or partners, a survey has found.
There's only one problem. The women are dreaming of a man who earns enough money so they can stay at home.
The findings suggest men are willing and able to accept the feminist view of family life - spending less time at work and more at home with the children.
Women, it seems, are the only ones who aren't so keen. And they are not shy about letting their husbands know their views.
The survey found half of all men with young children felt under pressure from their wives or partners to 'earn enough so that she can be a full-time mother'.
Four out of ten men are urged to earn more so that their wives can work part-time rather than have a full time job.
And only one man in eight has a wife or live-in girlfriend who wants to work full-time no matter how much he earns. 71% of the 2,000 men surveyed by men's magazine FHM said they did not want the role of family breadwinner. Instead, they preferred 'a 50/50 role with their partner, sharing work, childcare and housework'.
'Men like the idea of spending more time with their children and sharing the huge financial burden families today face.' said FHM spokesman Chris Bell.
'The problem is, women are now changing their minds. More and more women want to give up their careers when they become mothers.'
And the typical knee-jerk female response.The findings from the annual FHM Male Lifestyle Survey found increasing numbers of men across Britain believe their role in relationships and families has changed dramatically from their fathers', with more than half of men claiming it's women who make the rules.
Some men feel under threat from increasing female influence in their lives and a huge majority believe society is actually trying to feminise them.
The survey of 2000 men across the UK is one of the most surprising insights into the modern male psyche.
And FHM magazine editor Chris Bell said it showed men are adapting to increasing sexual equality for women by wanting to share roles.
He said: "Far from feeling disenfranchised by the change in their traditional male role, men now want a 50/50 partnership both workwise and familywise. Once a family arrives, men no longer want to be the sole breadwinners, who are lucky to spend a few minutes with their kids before they fall asleep."
Two thirds of men said that, as far as families were concerned, they wanted an equal share of financial and caring responsibilities with their partner - and that includes bringing home the bacon.
But while men are becoming more intent on sharing responsibilities, they also feel their better halves want to spend more time at home.
Almost fifty per cent of men said that after the birth of a child, around half of women said they wanted the man to earn enough so they could give up work to be full-time mums.
And 38 per cent of men said their partner only wanted to work part time.
The survey revealed that 51 per cent of men think that they live according to women's rules, while 81 per cent feel that society tries to feminise men.
Almost half of males questioned said they would describe themselves as "new men", while only six per cent wanted to be seen as macho.
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Shut up you deluded old cow.NEW survey by FHM has revealed that men no longer want to be the main breadwinners.
And more than 80 per cent feel society has tried to feminise them.
Visualise the New Men filling in the survey while salivating over a photo spread of High Street Honeys.
Maybe they think totty showing off their wobbly bits is a feminist statement.
The truth is men are opportunists and feminism gives them a cook in the kitchen, a ***** in the bedroom and now a high-flyer in the boardroom as well.
It has dawned on girls that superwoman is a con, while men realise she lets them have their cake and eat it, and bakes and pays for it too.
Of course, men don't want to be the main breadwinners anymore now they've tasted the life of the gigolo.
A third of men in Scotland say their partners earn more than them.
Is that women excelling or men taking a back seat?
More than 70 per cent of the men surveyed said they want a 50/50 role sharing work, childcare and housework.
Rubbish. If you've ever seen a bloke fit a shelf, you know they only do lop-sided.
Men think they've done the fair share of the housework when they open the door for the cleaner. Having a career didn't emancipate women, it doubled their workload. No wonder more now want to be stay-at-home mums.
Four out of 10 men think women use them. Not for multi-tasking, that's for sure. Women dreamed of having it all and ended up doing it all.
New Man is just a lazier version of the old one and we're not buying it anymore. So go and earn a crust. And be a luv and pick us up some Tampax on the way home.