Division Labor Quotes

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

An African man should not do anything called housework or cooking.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

If the family is the basis of the society, and the basis of the family is the division of labor between husband and wife, and the upbringing of children is the most important function of the family, then such a society is indeed civilized ...

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

General, you do the praying for this army, and I'll do the cussin'.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

Confined to the use of his own physical power, man is one of the most helpless animals. In proportion to his size and requirements, he is unquestionably very weak and slow. But the superiority of his organism consists precisely in the aptitude of his brain and the fitness of his hands for the contrivance and use of mechanical devices, through which he may take from nature, by artifice, those forces in which he is naturally wanting

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.