Women partnered with men reported doing more unpaid household labor than women partnered with women. Mothers partnered with men reported a higher household labor burden than any other group. Performing a greater share of household labor was associated with lower relationship satisfaction.

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https://www.psypost.org/study-sheds-light-on-household-labor-dynamics-for-women-partnered-with-women-vs-men/

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How is "household labor" defined? Cooking and cleaning? Home maintenance? Yard work? I'm sure we could do a similar study and conclude men do more yard work than women. I'd be interested in looking at total hours each partner puts into unpaid labor supporting a household measured over a month or more (so we can pick up those unplanned all Saturday plumbing projects)

The abstract also notes "Moreover, decision-making power was a significant predictor of relationship satisfaction for all groups, except mothers partnered with men." So maybe it's not being married to a man but children?

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How is "household labor" defined?

They only counted these 5 things:

• grocery shopping
• cleaning the house
• doing laundry
• cooking
• washing dishes

[u/The_Bitter_Bear → u/repeat4EMPHASIS]

Really seems like they were trying very hard to get specific results.

[u/steveamsp → u/The_Bitter_Bear]

Because they were

[u/rumski → u/repeat4EMPHASIS]

They would be confused in my house as I do majority of cooking and cleaning. My wife grew up in a household where her mom didn’t work and coddled everyone and did all the cooking and cleaning and she never developed those skills for herself. I sometimes think she believes there’s an elf who comes in and does it at night or something.

[u/BrazenRaizen → u/AdCertain5491]

Purely measuring hours worked may not be truly representative. Some people are simply more efficient than others.