How big is the housework gender gap? It depends if the husband or wife answers the question

By Joanna Syrda, Assistant Professor in Business Economics, University of Bath

Couples often disagree about who does more housework. Part of that disagreement reflects real differences in behaviour. But part of it is perception: what each person notices, remembers and counts as “work”.

That same problem turns out to influence the research that feeds headlines about gender equality at home. Many household surveys ask just one person to report how much housework both partners do. My…

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