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Secret To a Happy Married Life Lies in Dirty Dishes
The University of Western Ontario study revealed that couples, who share the responsibility for paid and unpaid work, report higher average measures of happiness and life satisfaction than those in other family models.
The 'shared roles' category, where each partner's unpaid work is within 40-60 per cent of the total unpaid work, is a growing category that now represents more than 25 per cent of respondents.
Couples are more likely to be in a shared roles model when women have more resources and when the couple is less religious.
The 'complementary-traditional family' model - in which men do more paid work and women do more unpaid work - is declining, but remains the largest category.
According to the researchers, the shared roles model is advantageous to society in terms of gender equity and its ability to maximize labour force participation by all adults.
It also leaves women less vulnerable in the case of separation, divorce or death of a spouse.
Lead researchers, Rod Beaujot and Zenaida Ravanera from Western's Department of Sociology, believe that a key policy challenge in Canada is that of accommodating the shared roles model within diverse families.
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