Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readOct 19, 2021

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Every study ever done on this topic says you are wrong. Maybe it's true in your house and your life, but out in the rest of the world, that is overwhelmingly not the case.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/283979/women-handle-main-household-tasks.aspx

"Although women remain more likely than men to perform most of the duties at home, this has declined in some cases over the past two decades. Since 1996, women have become less likely to be the primary partner handling grocery shopping (down 14 percentage points), laundry (down 12 points), cooking (down 12 points), dishwashing (down 11 points) and cleaning (down nine points). These shifts are accompanied by some combination of increases in the percentage of men primarily performing the tasks or sharing the work equally with their partners.Women also have become less likely to be the main spouse to pay bills as more have said this job is now shared equally between partners."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/09/men-only-pull-their-weight-at-home-in-a-world-where-thinking-doesnt-matter

"According to new research by the Pew Research Center, “There’s a significant gender gap in how mothers and fathers describe their household’s distribution of labor.” Essentially, Pew found that whether or not a woman works outside of the home, and no matter how many hours she works, mothers report doing more household labor than their husbands. Fathers, however, are about 10% more likely to say that their domestic chores are shared equally in the relationship.

Why is there such a disconnect among men about how much they’re doing around the house? Perhaps a better question: how can we get men to understand that they’re not doing nearly as much work as they think they are?"

If you make an actual spreadsheet of chores, you see that men do somewhere between 20-40% less around the house than women do. I can't find the story I saw on that to link it, but I remember it well.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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