Study says married men earn more if wives do the chores

I just love these studies. “Honey, make me dinner; my salary depends on it!”
Married men earn more than bachelors so long as their wives stay at home doing the housework, according to a report on Wednesday from Britain’s Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER).
Academics Elena Bardasi and Mark Taylor found that a married man whose wife does not go out to work but is primarily responsible for the cooking and cleaning earns about 3 percent more than comparably employed single men.
But that wage premium disappears if wives go out to work themselves or don’t do most of the housework.

“It has been fairly well documented that married men earn more than single men,” Taylor, a labour economist, told Reuters.
“However, our research established the wage premium is related to the wife doing the chores,” said the academic who teaches at the University of Essex.
Oh please. Anyone–regardless of gender–would be able to concentrate on their career more if they had someone taking care of all their shit at home. This is just a thinly-veiled way of saying that women belong in the home. And if you think I’m being paranoid, check this out:

A marriage might allow a husband and wife to focus their activities on tasks to which they are most suited. Traditionally, this would result in the man concentrating on paid work enabling him to increase productivity and in consequence his wages.
Excuse me, I need to go puke now.