Dividing up the housework

Today, I share another insight about how we live, from the Literary Review’s take on a new book, “What We Really Do All Day” by Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan:

“It’s striking how differently men and women use their time. The graph for an average weekday in 1961 shows the vast majority of men doing paid work from 9 to 5 ... whereas women were doing far less paid work and more housework. By 2015, the weekdays of men and women had become more similar . ...

“The amount of time women spend in paid work has gone up and the amount of time doing domestic work ... has dropped substantially, from 189 minutes per day in 1984 to 109 minutes in 2015.

“Men, by contrast, spent 22 minutes doing domestic work in 1984 and 48 minutes in 2015 . ... These and other statistics in the book add up to a depressing reminder of the stubbornness of the gender divide.”

So, how are things at your house? Email me at ronald.rollins@coxinc.com.