Housework is a woman's business, despite having a job

Working women do much more in the household than men

02/27/2014

Housework is still more a matter for women - although more and more women today are just as busy as men. A joint study by the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung and the University of Wuppertal has now come to this conclusion. According to the survey, women would continue to do three-quarters of household chores and spend an average of 2.3 hours a day.

Proportion of working women has increased significantly in the last 20 years
The proportion of working women has increased significantly in recent years. Still, the topic seems „House work“ continue to affect the women more. As the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung together with the University of Wuppertal has now found out in a study, women today take over three quarters of the work in the household, which in retrospect of the last 20 years would mean little change: „Accordingly, the share of working women in housework fell between 1992 and 2011 from 82% to 75%. Different models of working time hardly seem to play a role: while the proportion of full-time working women fell from 78 to 67%, it declined for part-time working women of similar proportions from 87% to 77%“, this is the information of the Institute for Economic Research.

The more share of household income, the less share of the household
The time, the women invest in the budget, according to the institute, however, has become somewhat lower. For example, 20 years ago, women still worked an average of 2.5 hours a day in the household, but today, on the other hand „only“ 2.3 hours. By contrast, the average housework time for men rose by just under 10 minutes to 0.8 hours a day. As the study further shows, the time spent on housework decreases the more the higher the share of the household income - and that there are no more serious differences between the sexes. Therefore, it can be assumed that an increase in income and a larger proportion of full-time employment among women could lead to a further decline in the share of housework. (No)