Mothers, according to the time diaries, shouldered the majority of child care and did not decrease their paid work hours. Furthermore, the gender gap was not present prebirth but emerged postbirth with women doing more than 2 hours of additional work per day compared to an additional 40 minutes for men. Moreover, the birth of a child magnified parents’ overestimations of work in the survey data, and had the authors relied only on survey data, gender work inequalities would not have been apparent.
Study confirms that women tend to do more housework than their male partners, irrespective of their age, income or own workloads
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-017-0832-1 - "Time, Money, or Gender? Predictors of the Division of Household Labour Across Life Stages"
Results indicated women performed more housework than men at all ages.
[2]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4584401/ - "The Production of Inequality: The Gender Division of Labor Across the Transition to Parenthood"
Mothers, according to the time diaries, shouldered the majority of child care and did not decrease their paid work hours. Furthermore, the gender gap was not present prebirth but emerged postbirth with women doing more than 2 hours of additional work per day compared to an additional 40 minutes for men. Moreover, the birth of a child magnified parents’ overestimations of work in the survey data, and had the authors relied only on survey data, gender work inequalities would not have been apparent.