The major determinant of how much housework a man did was how much he disliked it.
Now, the bad news: The same research found that men create, on average, seven more hours of housework a week for women.
Men who liked housework a lot (sic) spent around 60% more time per weekday on it than those who were indifferent to it, sparing their partners up to ten minutes of drudgery.
Meanwhile, she says less than 5% of families employ a nanny, and mothers do an average 18 more hours a week of housework than fathers, not including mental work like keeping track of appointments, documents and clothing sizes.
After all, if you're buying a robovac because you hate housework, you might as well be equipped with a remote so you don't have to leave the couch.
After a long national decline in time spent on housework, the study joins a growing body of research on how chores shape the dynamics of marriage.
Surveys in Japan have suggested that women who work full-time then go home and spend another 30 hours a week doing the housework.
In areas where hired help was 10% cheaper than average, he got away with 43% (9.6 minutes a day) less housework at weekends, and she did 17% (14.2 minutes) less.
She said during interview that she had done housework and prepared a school uniform.
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Women today put in 14 hours on childcare a week and 18 on housework, totaling 32 of their 53 hours overall of working.
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The findings, drawn from 4, 500 heterosexual married U.S. couples participating in the National Survey of Families and Households, add some context to other studies that have found that husbands get more sex when they do more housework -- a kind of domestic quid pro quo.
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At the age of 12, instead of complaining about having to help with the housework, he developed a remote-controlled car that could mop and vacuum.
At home the roommates are firmly equals, sharing a single bathroom and what little housework they manage to fit in (Kelman takes out the garbage).
And, it must be noted, men still do only 30 percent of the housework, according to a report released in March by the Council on Contemporary Families.
Untraditional couples, where he does most of the housework, may hold a less traditional or more modern view about marriage, whereby marital dissatisfaction more easily leads to marital break-up.
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Each sprog under five added 20 minutes to her weekday housework time, but just a couple of minutes to his.
Now it's changed as the responsibilities and role of the father has changed because now a father takes care of his kids and is much more involved in housework than - and caretaking than - you know, it's hard to imagine a Groucho Marx talking about changing diapers, for example.
Hong Kong has found a new group of people to do its housework and diaper-changing: young women escaping the ill fortunes of Indonesia.
" She claims to find the answer in a long-discarded feminist idea called "Wages for Housework.
As we achieve a cultural transformation regarding household and caregiving activities, then Equal Housework Day will eventually occur on December 31.
But soon they were squabbling about housework, and about the apportionment of their duties in a building they managed, and about the money he was making or not making, as he tried to launch a new company.
David was depicted as a docile house-husband, happy to look after Brooklyn and do the housework.
The degree of social, political, and economic influence a person wields is inversely proportional to that person's inclination to do housework.
That report analyzed data culled from more than a dozen studies over nearly 40 years, revealing wide-sweeping patterns in gender dynamics and housework in the U.S. and abroad.
She and her colleagues have done work suggesting that the division of housework doesn't align with an "exchange model" where chores are traded for a share of income, for example, or sex.
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But there is a cultural component too, a set of assumptions employers make about married women, even ones who have supportive spouses doing their share of the housework or the daycare duty.
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