There's A Key Difference Between The Chores Men And Women Take On [View all]

Research on the division of household labor has found that men are often in charge of tasks they can do on their own schedule, “while women pick up responsibilities that are difficult to put off or reschedule and inherently forfeit their right to choose when the tasks get done,” author Eve Rodsky wrote in her 2019 book “Fair Play.”

Rodsky refers to these immovable tasks as the “daily grinds” — “time-sucking jobs that must be done regularly, repetitively, and many at a very specific time.”

For example, women in relationships with men tend to be the ones to prepare meals, wash the dishes, make school lunches and do day care or school drop-offs and pickups — all time-sensitive, often inflexible tasks that punctuate their daily routines.

Plus, these responsibilities also tend to be highly repetitive in nature.

The men in these relationships, on the other hand, are often responsible for things like home and car repairs, lawn care and one-and-done type tasks like putting together furniture or installing a new appliance.

“You can determine when you want to do them and you don’t have to do them multiple times a day like with meals or cleaning up,”

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