The degree of social, political, and economic influence a person wields is inversely proportional to that person's inclination to do housework.
There were the husbands who wouldn't do housework but who would put together the cribs, carriers, baby gyms and high tech toys with the expertise only a Y chromosome provides.
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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David was depicted as a docile house-husband, happy to look after Brooklyn and do the housework.
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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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Niazi was not allowed to work because of his immigration status but he refused to do the housework and cleaning as he cared for their child at home.
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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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.
In rich Austria and Italy, women do at least three times as much housework and child care as men.
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.
Interestingly, the researchers found that both men and women report the highest satisfaction with the division of housework when the housework is divided equally, and the lowest when they themselves do most of the work.
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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.
The findings contradict previous research that found men who do more chores are happier and have better work-life balance, and that doing more housework leads to richer sex lives.
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