"Committed gay relationships, according to research in Vermont in the US, are happier than straight marriages. A lot of this, it seems, is about equality and sharing. Typically, in a straight marriage, the wife does most of the housework, whether or not she also has a full-time job. She is not happy about this, and who could expect her to be? The result is justified anger and resentment on her part. Also, in straight relationships it often works out that the man is the main income earner as the woman may give up full-time employment after having children. In a gay relationship, both are probably earning at around the same level of income."
Read more about this topic here in the Irish Times.
It would be interesting to see if this finding translates to groups of young people sharing rented accommodation, be those groups same-sex or multi-gender...
ReplyDeleteIt would be even more interesting to see how, it at all, this translates to the co-authorship of papers, a form of micro-household.Are "gay" (i.e. same-sex) co-authors happier or more productive than straights? We need to know.
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