Sentence examples for shared housework from inspiring English sources

When both parents work, they spend the same proportion of time engaged in the various uses of time as other families, with the exception of shared housework; in that activity they spend less time with their children than do other parents.

Out of rational considerations, the family could get maximum benefit if the man gave up his job to take care of the family or the couple shared housework equally.

College students who grew up in a family in which both parents shared housework and child care had lower anticipation of work family conflicts and stronger self-effiicacy, that is, belief they could manage both work and family, compared with students who had grown up in traditional households in which their mothers did most of the housework and caring for children (Cinamon, 2006).

Bernhardt E, Noack T, Lyngstad T. Shared housework in Norway and Sweden: advancing the gender revolution.

Men who share housework and childcare are healthier – physically and psychologically.

It appears to have been the April 21st issue, with articles on hunger in Yemen and couples sharing housework.

Under a reformed civil code, marriage contracts in Spain will include a pledge to share housework, child rearing and care for the elders.

Young men were much more likely to share housework and childcare with their partner if they saw their fathers doing so when they were children.

"If sharing housework with children is an important way that children are taught to do household tasks, then it's not surprising that the historically gendered division of household work is so slow to change," Bryant said.

Compared to men from other ethnic backgrounds, black Caribbean men were more likely to share housework equally with female partners, as well as to have more egalitarian attitudes towards gender roles.

White men were no more likely to share housework equally than men from other ethnic backgrounds, and tended not to have egalitarian views on statements suggesting a woman's place is in the home rather than at work and vice versa.