The 'New Man' theory - where the husband does his fair share of household chores - is a myth. As any working woman will tell you, women are now both housewives and hotshot yuppies but men haven't gone from being breadwinners to housekeepers.
A University of Michigan study has shown that the number of hours wives spend on chores has fallen from 19.5 a week to 14.5, but that's because of technology - vacuum cleaners and dishwashers.
The Working SuperWomen Spend Twice As Much Time To Household Chores as Men Do
Working women take more than twice as long to get to work as men - because they have to finish up with most of the household chores before heading out of the door.
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Husbands, on the other hand, do an average of seven hours a week of housework.
Some 26 per cent of wives now earn more than husbands - up from 15 per cent in 1980. Those earning 50 per cent more have doubled to nine per cent.
"There is something about the experience of being a wife, as opposed to a husband, that causes even high-earning wives to spend considerably more time on housework than their husbands," The Daily Mail quoted researchers Alexandra Killewald and Margaret Gough as saying.
Source: ANI
"There is something about the experience of being a wife, as opposed to a husband, that causes even high-earning wives to spend considerably more time on housework than their husbands," The Daily Mail quoted researchers Alexandra Killewald and Margaret Gough as saying.
Source: ANI
With 59pct Men 'Going Deaf' When Asked to Do Chores, Domestic Gender Equality a Far Cry
An astonishing 59 per cent men pretend not to hear when their wives or girlfriends ask them to muck in with household chores, a new survey has revealed.
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