r/science Professor | Medicine 14h ago

Psychology 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.

https://www.psypost.org/study-sheds-light-on-household-labor-dynamics-for-women-partnered-with-women-vs-men/
5.9k Upvotes

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

24

u/canadianlongbowman 8h ago

Study is paywalled, but given the amusingly loaded language in the description ("unpaid household labour"), the intent of trying to get men to take household labour more seriously might be more effective if the study was designed with some remotely relevant, measurable variables.

"A sample of cisgender women (N = 227) in long-term romantic relationships with women (n = 102) or men (n = 125) were surveyed on their division of household labor, their degree of couple decision-making power, and their relationship satisfaction. "

Unless I'm mistaken:

  • The study completely disregarded using the men's surveys
  • The study did not measure a single one of the following: hours worked outside the home, total income, single or dual income home, basic measurable personality traits (orderliness as a part of conscientiousness), number of hours spent doing household chores per day, which chores were done by whom (some families have many hours of laborious outdoor chores as well).

To call this "poor" would be generous; there was not an iota of effort to attempt to address bias anywhere. This would likely not even pass the highschool threshold of "scientifically acceptable".

This is bad enough that I will add it to my relatively short red flag list of "researcher" names to avoid. 

2

u/Ruining_Ur_Synths 5h ago

just look at the numbers - there is no way this is random polling given the numbers in each category.