Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In … particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from … preference for housework, suggesting that the reasons for the gendered division of housework lie elsewhere. …

the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by … pronounced during the second wave, it was still higher than pre-COVID-19. The time spent by women on housework, childcare, and … fewer hours helping with the housework and distance learning when their partners were at home. It is interesting, however …

of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. Our results show … shared within the couple than housework activities. According to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework … those continuing to work at their usual place of work, all of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before …

We examine how men and women in mixed-gender unions change the time they allocate to housework in response to labor … strongest association with housework time allocation adjustments. These adjustments are in part attributable to concurrent … holding more liberal gender role attitudes are more likely to adjust their housework time allocations after female promotion …

, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. In stage one, we model housework time to identify … predicted (i.e., socially expected) and residual components. In support of this bifurcation, the residual housework time …

earn more than their husbands without having to increase their number of housework hours, put their marriage at risk or …

This paper analyzes the relationship between parents' time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by … in housework for both parents, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children … will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …