20、 (河南省郑州市智林学校高一第一次月考) How do you get a man to do his share of the
housework? If you are like most women, you’ve faced this question the hard way.
A
man will enjoy a clean, orderly house, but he usually won’t make the effort to
clean or organise it. This doesn't mean that a woman has to do all the
housework:; she may have to manage many of the household duties, and request
her partner’s participation(参与). A woman
can often say that men and women should take equal responsibility(责任) for housework.
Very
few men are raised to be fully responsible for housework, and many men look on
housework as women’s work. On the other hand, most men will readily work around
the yard, make repairs and complete projects on weekends or evenings, and it’s
important that you give your man appreciation for those things, too. Most men
will take on a little additional housework around the house if asked politely.
They are even more likely to do housework if they can choose what they want to
do, and do it without being monitored.
Here’s
the key: men want to feel that they are doing housework either because they
want to do a task, or because they simply want to please their women. Men are
much less likely to take on household tasks they consider uninteresting and unimportant.
In other words, men are likely to do a household task just for the good of
the house.