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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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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One of the few activities these women found less enjoyable than caring for their children was doing housework, which is to say cleaning up after them.

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Surveys in Japan have suggested that women who work full-time then go home and spend another 30 hours a week doing the housework.

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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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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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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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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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Taking on increasing levels of paid work, housework, and childcare simultaneously--as studies demonstrate many women are doing--is far from empowering.

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