* In her excellent African Laughter, detailing her journeys through postwar Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Doris Lessing confirms this. Zimbabwean women, she said, do literally almost all the work.
I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe or Subsaharan Africa generally.
* I would suggest that a lot of this stems from Black men being sort of a “canary in the coal mine”; they are the last hired and first fired from traditional manual labor jobs. Thus, as those jobs go away because of 1) immigration; 2) mechanization; 3) feminization of the work place; men of the lower SES cohorts are drifting out of the traditional economy.
* Knowing women, is it really surprising that no matter what we do, it’s never good enough as far as feminists are concerned?
