'Disagreeable' married men who shirk domestic responsibilities earn more at work
University of Notre Dame
Married men who don't help out around the house tend to bring home bigger paychecks than husbands who play a bigger role on the domestic chores front.
New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that "disagreeable" men in opposite-sex marriages are less helpful with domestic work, allowing them to devote greater resources to their jobs, which results in higher pay.
In contemporary psychology, "agreeableness" is one of the "Big Five" dimensions used to describe human personality. It generally refers to someone who is warm, sympathetic, kind and cooperative. Disagreeable people do not tend to exhibit these characteristics, and they tend to be more self-interested and competitive.
"Why Disagreeableness (in Married Men) Leads to Earning More: A Theory and Test of Social Exchange at Home" is forthcoming in Personnel Psychology from lead author Brittany Solomon and Cindy Muir (Zapata), management professors at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, along with Matthew Hall, the David A. Potenziani Memorial College Professor of Constitutional Studies and concurrent law professor at Notre Dame, and Elizabeth Campbell from the University of Minnesota.
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/uond-mm061021.php
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Help who? Mommy/wife? What a privileged entitled statement in 2021, when most married women have jobs outside the home. Wait, are those women "helping out" the men by bringing in income?
