Husbands Create 7 Hours Of Extra Housework A Week According To Study

Oct 19, 2018

Marriage is a wonderful thing. It is a way for people to come together in love for each other. It provides both people with support during the good and bad times. However, it can also be as much work as a full-time job.

Even though times are changing, this work is often put on the women. Studies have proven that women take on more household tasks after they get married, but their husbands do less work.

It is 2018. Men and women are both capable of doing the household chores. So why aren’t men keeping up their end? Here is why there is an inequality in work distribution in marriages.

Marriage isn’t easy. According to a study done at the University of Michigan, marriage has unevenly distributed work between couples. Women tend to pick up seven extra hours of household labor while a man is spared an hour each week.

Kids add another layer to this. A single woman did the fewest hours of housework at just 12 hours per week. Women who were aged 60 to 80 did about twice that amount. Women with three or more children spent the most at 28 hours per week on household chores.

Times are different now. Just in 2005, only 17 hours were committed per week by women on average. This is progress, but women are still doing more than men.

However, in this study, older men were more helpful around the house than younger men. Single men were the hardest working than any other group. Half of the stay at home days are over 45. So why don’t they help out more?

Dads aren’t always in the front seat. Stay at home dads are becoming more and more common. In 2012, over two million fathers were not working. This is twice as much as 1989.

However, more often than not, the dad is at home because of an illness. There are fewer that just want to stay home with their kids.

Chores take a lot of time out of the day such as cleaning the kitchen, cleaning the bathroom, laundry and cooking. New appliances take care of some of the work, but it's still a lot of work.

However, more and more women are bringing in money. They are out working and supporting themselves and their families.

In fact, 29 percent of women make the majority of the money that comes into the house. So then why are they weighed down with household work?

Research also shows that women do more household chores to compensate. They do this to make their lesser earning partners feel better.

This is the scary truth. Studies also show that when the women makes more money, the marriage isn’t as satisfying. The woman works hard and still does more housework. This leads to unhappiness and often divorce.

However, gay couples do it better. Same-sex couples are more likely to divide up the chores evenly between each other. They have the same workload. They assign duties according to preferences and skill.

In contrast, straight couples are more likely revert to typical gender roles.

So are women taking on this burden of the housework because they care about how clean their home is or were they just raised to do the housework?

Do women have a natural instinct to clean more than men do?

If men helped with the housework, it could actually improve their sex life. Studies show that when men help with housework, women find it very sexy. The men have to pull their weight for it to work though. Just doing one chore here or there isn’t enough.

The times are changing. There should be a more equal division of chores in the house. You could even try doing them together. It could help get the chores done faster and more efficiently.

Women, do you do most of the housework? Men, does this make you want to help out more? Or do you already? Let us know how you divide up the housework in the comments and show this article to your friends and family!