Each sprog under five added 20 minutes to her weekday housework time, but just a couple of minutes to his.
It's important to reassess your happiness and satisfaction with the level of housework, time spent together and what amount of time you each spend at work and home.
To achieve greater equity, men will need to reallocate their time toward housework and caregiving activities so that women can gain more time for working for pay and leisure.
Unpaid time doing housework has declined more among women than work has increased, meaning that they too have more leisure time than in the past.
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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.
Since 1965, fathers have nearly tripled the time they spend with children and more than doubled the time they spend doing housework.
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Pakistani men allocate the same amount of time to paid work, housework and child care as Swedish men.
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.
Surveys in Japan have suggested that women who work full-time then go home and spend another 30 hours a week doing the housework.
Yet, even when she works full-time, in 65% of the couples aged 30 to 49 she still tended to do more housework than him.
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