From its lowly beginnings in housework (think: Roomba), robotics are fast tracking up the ladder of importance in everyday lives.
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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.
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.
In 11% of couples, women do almost all of the housework, and in 60% of couples, women do more of the housework.
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They are still doing more unpaid work at home than men, and in fact while housework has declined, childcare has increased.
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For instance, 83% of the copreneurial wives were entirely in charge of general housework, compared with 49% of wives with their own careers.
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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.
But if the husband did no stereotypically female tasks (making meals, perhaps, or scrubbing floors), couples had sex 1.6 times more per month than couples in which husbands shared housework.
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In respondents' minds, housework outranked even such necessities as adequate income and good housing, Pew says.
Analyzing data of thousands of Norwegian couples, they found the divorce rate was higher for those doing equal amounts of housework than couples in which the women did more.
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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).
After reviewing data on how married couples in the U.S. tackle housework, as well as self-reports of how often they enjoyed intercourse, sociologists at the University of Washington (UW) say that couples who shared the burden of chores -- cooking, cleaning and caring for the lawn -- tend to have the least active sex lives.
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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.
He coordinates multiple Google calendars for each family member, plus one for housework that helps him spread cleaning tasks in short bursts throughout the week vacuuming on Tuesday, sanitizing garbage cans and watering plants on Wednesday, cleaning bathrooms on Thursday.
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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" She claims to find the answer in a long-discarded feminist idea called "Wages for Housework.
It said drowning of young children mostly took place in rural areas during the day when mothers were busy with housework or other chores.
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.
In rich Austria and Italy, women do at least three times as much housework and child care as men.
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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Just as Equal Pay Day brings attention to the disparity in pay for men and women, it could be useful to also establish an Equal Housework Day to benchmark the progress men are making performing household and caregiving tasks.
So we could set January 18 as Equal Housework Day to show that it takes men over 12.5 months to do what women do in 12 months.
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