Proven: Men create an EXTRA 7 hours of work per week for women!

"I accept you as my husband and I promise that I will remain faithful to you in good times and bad, that I will pick up the trash after you, organize meetings for you and remind you to wash the dishes in the evening." If wedding vows sounded like this, would women still get married? This study demonstrates that married women, expectedly or not, still do (too) much in the household. What's more, researchers have discovered that partners, or men, create extra work for their wives, whether they realize it or not.

V studies, conducted at the University of Michigan and led by him economist Frank Stafford, they discovered how it was changing dynamics in marriage from the 1960s and 1970s to today. As you may have already realized or thought, they do modern laws more equal division of household work, but this does not mean that each partner has an equal share of the work. Indeed, women today they work less, as they worked in the second half of the 20th century (17 hours per week compared to 26 hours per week), while men work a little more (13 hours per week compared to 6 hours per week).

Women still do more work in the household.

But Stafford and his team dug deeper anyway and got there to the following conclusions:

Years 1976 are married women on average 9 hours more per week devoted to housework compared to single women, and married men 3 hours more compared to single men.
Years 2005 are married women made for 4 more hours housework compared to single women, and married men for 5 hours more compared to single men.

A graph showing the distribution of household work.

"This graph shows that in 2015, single women without children spent about 10 hours per week on housework, while married women without children spent slightly more than 17 hours per week. The only difference? The presence of a man, which imposes an additional 7 hours of work on the woman. For men, the situation is reversed. Single men without children did about 8 hours of housework per week, while married men without children did a little more than 7 hours per week. The wives thus save them an hour of work per week,” says economist Frank Stafford. "It is a well-known pattern. There is still a significant redistribution of labor that occurs upon marriage, with men mostly working around the house and women in the household. Of course there is individual differences, but generally that's what happens after marriage. The situation gets even worse when the children come.”

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Before you give your husband a hard time, remember that these results are general and show an average while he has each relationship or marriage has its own unique dynamics.

Hopefully, modern laws will soon be truly equal. However, Stafford found out more further study, presented in 2018, which also explored similar trends, this time among children. In the year 2002 they are boys did about 21.4 minutes of housework per day, and girls 40.5 minutes per day. Until the year 2014 these numbers have already become somewhat more even, because they are boys did 26.8 minutes a day and girls 30 minutes a day. The next generations are therefore on the right track.