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Father’s Day: Research says dads do their share of housework
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Google “housework women men,” or anything similar, and you’ll be bombarded with dozens of headlines telling you fathers aren’t doing enough. But liberal media bias aside, if we take a closer look, what the research actually shows is that fathers do as much for their families as mothers do.
In 2020, the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR), the world’s largest academic survey and research organization, cited data showing that men contribute as many hours of work to their families as women do, and have for at least the past five decades. The Pew Research Center even found “fathers’ overall work time (including unpaid work at home) is actually two hours more than that of mothers.”
How do we square research with perception? Women’s advocates and sympathetic media focus not on overall contributions to a household, which includes housework, childcare and market work (paid employment), but specifically on housework and/or childcare. The greater burden........