More than 70 percent of mothers want their partners to do more household chores and child-rearing tasks, while more than 60 percent of fathers hope to take on more of these duties, according to a ...

Men did about six hours of housework a week in 1976, compared with about 13 hours in 2005. But when the researchers looked at just the last 10 years, comparing how much housework single men and women ...

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What's happening: In general, gender roles are changing. Women are more likely to work outside the home. Men increasingly say they want an equal marriage. But even though men today spend much more ...

While women are doing less housework than they used to, they still take on the brunt of the household cleaning chores. New research indicates that this extra work stresses them out, and that stress ...

What could make a man start doing a larger share of a couple's housework? Switching into a traditionally female job maybe one way, according to a new study. Looking at several thousand people from ...

A recent study by Norwegian researchers Thomas Hansen and Britt Slagsvold suggests that equally sharing housework with your spouse may not lead to happiness ever after. Analyzing data of thousands of ...

Dual-earner couples share the housework equally—until the first baby comes. As a tenured professor and mother of four young sons, I am constantly asked, "How do you do it?" What people mean is: "How ...

Minorities are disproportionally assigned "office housework", according to author Alan Henry. Being consistently assigned these tasks can lower your chances of promotion. Keeping an office diary and ...

In the United States, as in many nations around the world, people are having fewer children. According to the CDC, the country’s birth rate is at a record low, a trend that may eventually threaten tax ...