Happy marriages and housework

A new study by two sociologists found that many women don't mind if they have to do most of the housework as long as their husbands pay attention to them and do at least something around the house besides complain about the lost remote.

A couple of things here: How many married guys out there haven't figured out yet that if they compliment their wives now and again, life at home gets a whole lot better? Are there really that many Neanderthal couch-potatoes out there? And how many guys use the old "pay attention'' gambit as a way to dodge housework and other marital woes?

I'll plead the Fifth on that last one and invite married couples to tell us what is a fair division of household labor in these times.