Women also spent more time on cooking and cleanup than men -- 69 percent and 46 percent respectively.
The data from 100 years ago still applies now despite modern advances — working women are doing way too much around the house
It’s no secret that working outside of the home and raising a family is a tough balance. There is no “having it all,” there are concessions, dropped balls, and daily exhaustion. One recent study found a reason many women not only feel tired, butThese and other results from the American Time Use Survey were released this week by the
and the findings are not only frustrating , they are similar to the findings from almost 100 years ago.The study researched the average amount of time per day in 2018 that individuals worked, did household activities, and engaged in leisure and sports activities and according to one finding, full-time working women spend 21 hours on average on housework every single week.
Additionally, on an average day, just 20 percent of men did any housework at all, compared with 49 percent of women. Women also spent more time on cooking and cleanup than men — 69 percent and 46 percent respectively. Men were “slightly more likely to engage in lawn and garden care than were women — 11 percent, compared with 7 percent.”, in 2008, using data collected from thousands of detailed time diaries, that married, employed women in 1900 put in about 27 hours a week on household chores.
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