Mrs Fix It: Are Women Who Do DIY Making Their Husbands Lazy?

No more Jim'll fix it!

It's more likely to be Jim's wife Julia who's wallpapering one room and mending a leaky fawcet in another.

Proof once more, if ever you needed it, that tranditional gender roles are meaningless.

You hear that Andrew Garfield?

A new study carried out by WD Bathrooms has shown women to be the primary DIY-ers around the house.

Of the 1,244 women surveyed, a massive 60 per cent of them have admitted that they are much more likely to be the ones carrying out the home improvements.

Of course, many women have been DIY savvy for years and there are plenty of female landscapers, construction workers, plumbers and electricians - we're not living in the Mad Men era anymore!

But this new statistic shows quite conclusively that, when it comes to fixing things around the house, we're outstripping the men.

Fixing On The Cheap

Considering there's been a sharp rise in female home owners in recent years, it makes sense that women would feel more of a sense of pride and investment in their houses.

Plus, if you're going to shell out that many hundreds of thousands of pounds on a new pad, you're going to want to find other ways of saving the pennies.

Calling out a plumber or electrician can be unbelievably expensive - not to mention the hassle of having to sit around waiting for them to arrive two hours after they said they would.

Granted, if you're planning on adjusting the gas heater or tinkering with insulation that may or may not contain asbestos, then you'd be well advised to call in a pro.

But often, the problem is nothing that a trip to the hardware store and a quick YouTube tutorial couldn't fix.

Boom, £300 saved.

In fact, there are plenty of resources aimed especially at women DIY-ers.

The website Be Jane, for example, will teach you everything from re-wiring a plug, through to cutting vinyl flooring with a power knife!

What Was That Andrew Garfield?

Gender roles have been an important topic again this week as Andrew Garfield found himself in hot water with girlfriend Emma Stone for his comments about "femininity."

In a Yahoo! Q & A session, Emma was a little peeved to learn that Andrew considered sewing to be a woman's domain.

The The Amazing Spider-Man actor said: "[Sewing is] feminine because I would say that femininity is more about delicacy and precision and detailed work."

He continued: "[My Mother] made my first Spider-Man costume when I was 3."

Well, if this study has shown us anything, it's that women can take that delicacy and precision and apply it to heavier tasks, such as sanding, picture-hanging and tiling the bathroom floor.

Hello Couch Potato

The only problem with women being so hands-on in the household, is that they're often organising everything else as well.

So if the women that are doing the wallpapering are also doing the cooking, ironing, bed time stories and scrubbing under the toilet seat, what are the men doing?

Does this mean the hubbies just have more time to play SEGA on the sofa?

Hmm.

Let's not be too pessimistic. While the women are putting the sealant on the windows, the men are probably knocking up the Spider-Man costumes on the old sewing machine.

Right?

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What do you reckon? Are women DIY-ers breeding a new generation of lazy husbands?