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The surprising truth about which men do the most chores Lois M. Collins © Photo illustration by Rachel Gartz The findings surprised the researchers: Religious men tackle household tasks like cooking and grocery shopping at even higher rates than nonreligious, progressive men. And both do more cooking and cleaning than the men who fall in between them on the faith scale. That’s according to a study by University of Utah researchers Claudia Geist, an associate professor of soc...

In a recent study, Bethany Gull and Claudia Geist identify two paths leading to men’s increased housework participation—one non-religious and egalitarian, the other religious and family-centered. Their results surprised them, as they had expected conservative religious men to have lower housework participation due to their traditional gender ideologies.  We were not surprised by their findings. We suggest there are two basic reasons people assume religious men refrain from household cho...