Boys need to do more housework

Boys are not doing as well as girls in school. The latest suggestion is that they need to do more housework to get them into a work ethic. I am not sure that doing housework gives ANYBODY a work ethic. It is boring, soul destroying and a complete waste of time [especially in this house, where I spend my time cleaning up after two muck magnets, aka Ferret & Silk...]. I agree that boys should do housework, as their parents are not there to wait on them hand and foot, and neither are their sisters, but I don't think it will improve their GCSE performance. It is strange how there is all this concern about boys underachieving - nobody has ever really been that concerned about girls not achieving their full potential - now or in the past...

Housework proposed for failing boys