Housework gap. (in two-career families who does the housework and childcare?)

HOUSEWORK GAP

With hard numbers attacked to it, the often trivialized question, "Who does the housework?" carries some punch. On average, over the past two decades, women have worked roughly 15 hours longer each week than men, according to Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift, a book exploring the lifestyles of working parents. Another study, conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, showed women averaged 34 hours of housework a week in 1975 while men averaged 13.5 hours. A follow-up study in 1981 revealed the time women devoted to housework remained at 34 hours, while men spent an additional three hours a week on chores, bringing …