When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.
My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.
The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.