Does The "New Man" Really Exist?

Today roles in the family have become more equal (Integrated Conjugal roles.) This is due to factors such as:

• The fact that women are constantly getting more status and higher playing jobs and would rather go out to work than doing the cooking and ironing and if two people are in a relationship where the woman is earning more it makes more sense if the women goes out to work and the man stays at home as a sort of house husband.  
• Also men have started to help more around the house because they watch TV and see TV role models such as Jamie Oliver and Ansliy Harriet. This would inspire them and they would cook more for the family because they would enjoy trying to make exotic new foods.  

Survey:

For my survey I asked an equal amount of boys and girls the same 10 questions, these ranged from who brings in more money your mum or dad to who washes the evening dishes.

Results:

The results show that though the figures are changing and more men are helping, the majority of the jobs are still done by the women. But this is only things such as the cooking and the cleaning, knower days men are helping around the house and doing job which used to be seen and things a woman would do. Things like doing the weekly shop, which in most families is a shared chore; washing the evening dishes, can often been seen as a females job whilst the man of the house goes and sorts out other jobs around the house but now men and women are often taking it in turns or doing the washing up together. Although the men are helping in these aspects they are still keeping up the so-called macho role by making sure that there the ones that does the entire house DIY work, etc. In doing this all this hard DIY work you would expect that they would be able to clean a toilet but no that’s not the case not one of the people that I surveyed admitted that there dad was the one who purely cleaned the toilets. It was ether their mum that cleaned the toilet or their mum and dad shared the job.  

Conclusion:  

I personally think that by the information that I’ve gathered that the “New Man” is ether a myth or an endangered species. Because all though men have started to become more helpful and caring, they still have boundaries such as not cleaning bathrooms and not looking after the children when they are sick. Because of the facts that I have gathered I can see that men are still much to self conscious and don’t really agree with collecting there children from school because they would feel like they were the odd one out. They would also get invited to coffee mornings with all the other mums if they were the ‘house husband’ and this would be a real test of there self consciousness of them not thinking that all the other men see them as different or more feminine. So over all I think that the “New Man” is well on its way to be more than a myth or and endangered species.

 

By  Richard Stopher