What: Psychology researchers at USC wanted to go deeper on how two-parent households with a male and female partner divide labor. Instead of just looking at the tasks completed, they also examined “the cognitive work—i.e. anticipating, planning, delegating—required to actually get the tasks done.”
Why it matters: “We found a striking gender disparity: Mothers not only performed more physical housework but also carried a significantly greater share of cognitive labor compared with their partners. On average, mothers reported being responsible for about 73% of all cognitive household labor compared with their partners’ 27%, and 64% of all physical household labor compared with their partners’ 36%. Indeed, for every single task we examined, the gender difference was larger for the cognitive dimension than the physical execution dimension. There was only one task in which fathers did more planning and execution: taking out the garbage. Fathers also carried out more home maintenance tasks, but mothers did more of the related planning.”
Source: The Conversation
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