It's time for women to quit housework (again)
Women of the world unite in dedicating more time to yourselves and less to housework. Men might learn something along the way, too.
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Women of the world unite in dedicating more time to yourselves and less to housework. Men might learn something along the way, too.
In the U.S., the average woman spends so much more time on chores than the average man that to equalize the load, women would have to quit the housework entirely
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Even single women living alone do more housework than single men.
Women spend 47 minutes more on housework on average than men each day, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That adds up to roughly 5½ hours each week, and that's not including child care, grocery shopping or errands, which the BLS classifies in other categories and of which women also do far more.