Put differently, the only way to reduce debt is to allocate the cost to some sector of the economy, and broadly speaking these sectors are the
household sector, the private sector, the state sector, and the various more specialized subsectors within these three — for example
households can consist of rich
households versus the rest, the state sector can be
divided among the central government and the provincial governments, the private sector can consist of SMEs, large corporations,
labor - intensive industries, capital - intensive industries, the export sector, etc..
Indeed, as recently as 2013, an article in the American Sociological Review found that couples who
divided housework more equally had lower marital and sexual satisfaction and less frequent sex than couples where the woman did the bulk of the
household labor.