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Women Shouldn’t Do Any More Housework This Year
We need “Equal Housework Day” to bring attention to gender inequities at home.
Unequal burden.
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(This column was originally published in August 2022. And women are still doing too much housework.)
Women spend 47 minutes more on housework on average than men each day, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That adds up to roughly 5 ½ hours each week, and that’s not including childcare, grocery shopping or errands, which the BLS classifies in other categories and of which women also do far more.