Women are 6 x more likely to take responsibility for the laundry. Women spend on average 2 hours a week on the laundry, where men on average spend 30 mins.
Women shoulder two thirds of the 'invisible' labour of unpaid care tasks like cleaning and childcare. Women do 26 hours of this type of work per week (25 hours in the 25-35 age bracket) vs men's 16 hours.
When care tasks are shared more equally couples are likely to have a higher household income, higher happiness and less conflict, better retirement and pensions and more sex! They also set the positive role modelling for their children.
In the global State of Fatherhood Report, across 16 countries, 70-90% of men said they felt equally responsible for care work.
80% said boys should be taught how to do household chores and care work during childhood.
“Men and women consistently overestimate the proportion of housework they do. Women believe they do the lion’s share, while men believe the split is 50:50. In reality, in the UK the average man does16 hours a week of unpaid housework, while the average woman does 26 hours a week. Clearly this isn’t 50:50, but neither is it 90:10. A large piece of the discrepancy stems from simply not knowing what our partners do, and vice versa.”
JENNIFER PETRIGIERLI PHD
From the TED talk 'How to split the
chores with your partner minus
the drama and fighting
For those couples who want to be equal partners, seeing the 'invisible work' and how it is split, empowers them to making a change (if needed) and ensures everyone's efforts are seen and valued.
Our split pack of gorgeously scented, sustainable and super effective organic laundry tabs makes seeing how well you share the load super easy.
Two compartments, equal number of tabs in each.
Pick a side, your partner has the other. When one side is gone have a conversation about how much is left on the other side. How well do you share the load? How indicative is this of how other tasks are shared?
The pack includes resources to help have this chat and look at how you can easily track and improve how well you share other tasks.
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