The story of “the woman is the one who treats the house” is being behind, at least in the US. The pandemic helped change the scenario.
Are data from the United States of America but it is a reality that is not in the US: the married men are treating more from the house. They clean more, aspire more, wash their clothes more often.
According to data from Socius investigators, the difference between the time that women and men pass on the homework has lowered 40%. This over the last 20 years. In the 21st century, basically.
Concrete numbers: if we retreat to the decade 1960, For example, women in the US passed 7 times longer In homework (cleaning, cooking, washing clothes, treating children, shopping, gardening…).
Nos 90’s of the last century, lowered to the good. Women spent twice the time in these tasks compared to men.
In 2003, it was 6:30 pm a week for the woman, 10am for the man.
And now, in 2023, One woman spends an average of 5:45 pm a week on household chores – men spend 11:12. It is still 1.6 times more.
Where there is still a greater difference (double for women) is in the time spent with the children.
At the beginning of the century, more precisely between 2003 and 2005, the women from the US spent an average of 4:12 am a week to prepare meals and tidying up. At the same time, men spent only 1h a week in the same tasks. That is, less than 25% of the wife’s time.
But between 2022 and 2023, the proportion changed a lot: for every hour spent by men, women are at 2:30 am. Of course it remains more than double, but it is a substantial difference.
“There is a hope here”reacts to sociologist Melissa Milkie, on the portal.
What has changed?
Several aspects. One of them was the obvious demographic change e professional: Younger and university -educated married women are doing less housework than older married women with academic qualifications.
Men spend more time in the readings of the house because, probably, the belief changed. Society stopped looking (so much) aside to a man who deals with the house.
And a pandemia Helped: Men began to be more at home, began to collaborate more at home; They have developed new domestic habits and to some extent these habits still remain.
