🤔 ‘The Knowledge says “…It is mathematically impossible for the average Frenchman to do his mandated 35 hours of work a week, says Le Point. He sleeps an average of eight hours a night (2,920 hours a year), eats two hours a day (730 hours), spends an hour on transport (365), “devotes 30 minutes a day to his toilette” (183) and has 52 weekends in the year (2,496). All this leaves 2,066 “useful” hours per year, from which must be subtracted five weeks of leave (840 hours), for a remainder of 1,227 hours. But 35 hours per remaining week adds up to 1,645 hours – leaving an inescapable deficit of more than an hour per day….
Far be it from me to raise the question of how French women manage to to all they’re supposed to … but I bet they do … and more … they probably do their stuff plus the stuff the men don’t have time for …
💡 they probably multi-task 😉
… I’ll get my coat ….. 🤪
Just seen this.
My 2 daughters live in France, married to French men. They are full time teachers, 3 children each. They cook, clean their houses, do the washing, take the children to school, tennis, piano lessons etc and do the gardening. I have enormous admiration for both of them.
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Thank you @Lizzie27, but their Mum gave up nursing when she started having babies! I was lucky as in those days my dentist husband earned enough for me to be a stay at home Mum.
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My 2 daughters live in France, married to French men. They are full time teachers, 3 children each. They cook, clean their houses, do the washing, take the children to school, tennis, piano lessons etc and do the gardening. I have enormous admiration for both of them.