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Thursday, June 12, 2008

How things remain the same

The New York Times Magazine article, "When Mom and Dad Share It All," reports that household chore ratio between husband and wife has essentially not changed that much in 90 years.

"The most recent figures from the University of Wisconsin’s National Survey of Families and Households show that the average wife does 31 hours of housework a week while the average husband does 14 — a ratio of slightly more than two to one."

And if you think that's bad. The ratio of childcare responbislities is worse:

"Where the housework ratio is two to one, the wife-to-husband ratio for child care in the United States is close to five to one."

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