Who Does Most of the Housework in a Work-at-Home Moms Family?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} For the typical two-parent American household, I’ll put my money on mom, work at home or not. And I’ve got the U.S. Department of Labor to back me up. According to its 2008 time usage survey, women do more housework, more often than men. OK, so this probably isn’t news to most of us. But it’s interesting to look at the data. Eighty three percent of women and 64 percent of men spent some time on an average day doing household activities, such as housework, cooking, lawn care or financial and other household management. And to break it down a little bit more: “On an average day, 20 percent of men did housework–such as cleaning or doing laundry–compared with 50 percent of women. Thirty-eight percent of men did food preparation or cleanup compared with 65 percent of women.” And when you
