I am thinking that for MOST situations, MOST men are not doing any of those things on a daily, week-in, week-out basis. They might handle the occasional “urgent” minor repair, but they are not putting in the hours and hours that MOST women are putting into keeping up a household.
(flaming now anticipated)
The whole thing is absurd, and is only good for tearing apart families by introducing strife into the marriage (”Well, dear, your day at the office may be tough, but I’m not paid enough”). Remember, marriage is a union of two, not just the individual looking out for his/her own best interest.
The problem with this stupidity, like this article, is that they have no employer, they work for themselves..... they should be paying themselves and usually do when they take hubbies paycheck every week.
The reason male and female roles in chores and routines are different is of course sometimes related to strength and so on, the obvious stuff, but something that is overlooked, is the difference between male and female energy.
Women prefer light work and all day energy, men prefer heavy work, of short duration, they want to go in and kill a job, not marry it for the rest of their lives, men don't really like doing routine chores in the home on a daily basis, but they will go out and wrestle with the tractor, move a pile of hay, dig a ditch, rebuild the well house.
A man doesn't mind moving the heavy couch for you but he wants to do it once, and then he wants to lay on it for 30 minutes resting, he doesn't want to move it around as a visual aid while the woman visualizes different perspectives.