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NBC's Amy Robach and ABC's Dan Harris came up with quite different concepts of the worth of domestic labor. Robach publicized the annual report by salary.com that estimates the market wage for stay-at-home childrearing--combination chauffeur, gardener, chef, maidservant, launderer, housekeeper--at an annual $123,000. Robach assumed all those valuable tasks are women's work. Harris kicked off ABC's New Gender Rules series by pointing out that those chores are now often performed by newly laid-off househusbands. Far from receiving the respect that $123K worth of work would command, "many couples are now engaged in wrenching renegotiations over gender roles." Harris even persuaded bread-winner wife Eleanor Hemmert to publicly insult her apron-wearing husband Rick on camera: "I wish I could say something different but I have lost so much respect for him."
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