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Study: Women Are in Charge at Home [OMG RLY?]
« on: July 12, 2007, 04:09:29 AM »
From yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070711/sc_livescience/studywomenareinchargeathome

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Men might throw their weight around at the office, but at home, women are the bosses.

A study, which was just released, finds that wives have more power than their husbands in making decisions and dominating discussions.

"The study at least suggests that the marriage is a place where women can exert some power," said lead author David Vogel, a psychologist at Iowa State University (ISU). "Whether or not it's because of changing societal roles, we don't know.”

The results counter past research.

“Most of the research literature in psychology has suggested that women have less power,” Vogel told LiveScience. “They have largely based that on the fact that traditionally men earn more money and so therefore would have the ability to make big decisions in the relationship.” That wasn’t the case in this study.

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Vogel, Megan Murphy, also of ISU, and their colleagues surveyed 72 married couples in which the spouses were an average of 33 years old and had been married for about seven years. Most of the participants (66 percent) were Caucasian, followed by Asian (22 percent), Hispanic (5 percent) and African American (4 percent). The final 3 percent represented “other” nationalities.

Each spouse answered questions about relationship satisfaction and overall decision-making ability. Then, each spouse noted a relationship problem that could not be resolved without the spouse’s cooperation. While money and housework were popular picks, sex didn’t come up much as a marital issue.

Topics chosen by husbands/wives included:

    * Money—18 percent (husbands) / 13 percent (wives)
    * Housework—15 percent / 15 percent
    * Friends and family—10 percent / 19 percent
    * Feelings and emotions—10 percent / 13 percent
    * Time together—13 percent / 10 percent
    * Making decisions—18 percent / 4 percent
    * Sex—4 percent / 1percent
    * Intimacy—1 percent / 1 percent
    * Communication—3 percent / 4 percent
    * Children—husbands never chose this topic; 3 percent of wives
    * Other relationship changes—4 percent / 17 percent

The scientists videotaped the couples while they discussed each of the issues for 10 minutes.

Women power

Trained volunteers coded the videotapes using a scale that rated couples’ interactions based on words and behaviors associated with blame (blames, accuses and criticizes the partner); demand (nags, pressures for change, requests); withdrawal and avoidance (avoids discussion the problem by hesitating, changing topics, diverting attention or looking away); and discussion.

Wives were more demanding—asking for changes in the relationship or in their partner—and were more likely to get their way than the husbands. This held regardless of who had chosen the issue.

The women were not just talking more than their husbands.

"It wasn't just that the women were bringing up issues that weren't being responded to, but that the men were actually going along with what they said,” Vogel explained. “[Women] were communicating more powerful messages, and men were responding to those messages by agreeing or giving in.”

One reason for in-charge wives could be that they carry the weight of making sure the family farm is running smoothly.

"Women are responsible for overseeing the relationship, making sure the relationship runs, that everything gets done, and that everybody's happy," Murphy said.

Wife power could signal a harmonious couple. "There's been research that suggests that's a marker of a healthy marriage—that men accept influence from their wives," Murphy said.

The study, published in the April issue of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health along with ISU.

Were there seriously people who weren't sure of this? :lol
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Re: Study: Women Are in Charge at Home [OMG RLY?]
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2007, 04:10:39 AM »
WOMEN NEED TO STAY BAREFOOT AN' IN THE KITCHEN

PLUS I HEARD THAT THEIR PERIODS ATTRACT BEARS.  BEARS!
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Re: Study: Women Are in Charge at Home [OMG RLY?]
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2007, 04:12:54 AM »
YOU HEAR THAT MAF? BEARS. GREAT. NOW YOU'VE PUT THE WHOLE FORUM IN DANGER.
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2007, 04:37:58 AM »
Women detrimental to leading a happy life, news at 11

Bears > Women
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2007, 05:02:39 AM »
I think its degrading to men everywhere - the state of balance between men and women.

Somewhere along the line, men in general got so whipped that they tolerate wayyyyyyyyyyy too much..... takin the ladies back after they cheated, lettin their girl put them in a dress and violate them with a dildo (w/ pictures on myspace)...its too much.....

In more recent years girls that iv been involved in brief relationships sometimes are appauled and shocked by the shyt i wont tolerate - and the last thing you wanna do is talk about it because they will ALWAYS try to convince you to think some of the most derranged shyt is OK.

To avoid this - and help get things back on track for men/women in nature....

1.) make your boundaries clear

2.) cut disrespects out swift and quietly. (just break up with girls and give them no second chances - DONT EVEN TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT - yeah you gotta go meet somebody new, but we need to take drastic measures to send that half of society the message and start to help men retake their proper social positioning)

3.) Dont be an emo qveer. IT only makes girl wanna cause drama. Take relationship matters straight and dry like a glass of gin (no ice). Be more humaine when doing business than when dealing with girls.

4.) REMEMBER that if you deviate from 1-3 above you are only exposing yourself to manipulation. Become comprimised by a female and your will be considered "dead weight" to other men who are kinda annoyed with how schitzofukked most girls have become.

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Re: Study: Women Are in Charge at Home [OMG RLY?]
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2007, 12:10:10 PM »
This study was clearly done by the same geniuses who found out that women are more attracted to healthy, muscular men in another recent study.
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Re: Study: Women Are in Charge at Home [OMG RLY?]
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2007, 01:26:13 PM »
Do you think I could do a study on how it's good to breathe oxygen and get some cold hard cash from da gobment? :pimp
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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2007, 01:44:11 PM »
I can confirm this. My dad gets pussywhipped ALL THE TIME.  :-[ :-*




























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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2007, 03:36:32 PM »
Women detrimental to leading a happy life, news at 11

Bears > Women
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2007, 03:37:10 PM »
men and women both have power in the house.  anything other than being fair means someone is getting the short end of the stick, and that's right where problems start...

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Re: Study: Women Are in Charge at Home [OMG RLY?]
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2007, 04:22:42 PM »
I know too well how much power women have in the house. My younger sister, a person who in certain cultures wouldn't even be allowed to call me by my first name, is basically a dictator.

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Re: Study: Women Are in Charge at Home [OMG RLY?]
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2007, 04:34:16 PM »
prost, do you ever stick it in catz' poopenschaft?
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« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2007, 08:03:16 PM »
prost, do you ever stick it in catz' poopenschaft?
we've been over this before.

taking something so massive to the ass could have serious health risks, so we're not going to try that one.
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Re: Study: Women Are in Charge at Home [OMG RLY?]
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2007, 08:13:58 PM »
prost, do you ever stick it in catz' poopenschaft?
we've been over this before.

taking something so massive to the ass could have serious health risks, so we're not going to try that one.

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