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In American families, shows that, even though men have increased the amount of time they spend on housework and caring for family members in recent decades, women are still doing more – about twice as much as men. That’s true even when women work full-time, when they’re the primary breadwinners, and whether or not they have children. Although, when families have young children, the additional burden on mothers is . And none of that data counts the “invisible” mental labor of planning, organizing and logistics that women tend to do. (Just having a man in the house tends to – partnered mothers do more housework and child care than single mothers.)

Men, on the other hand, spend more time at work. And they have more leisure time.

When men do take on household chores, has found the chores tend to be gendered as well, with men doing the outdoor chores or one-off repair projects that can be done as their schedules permit. Women, on the other hand, tend to be responsible for the time-demanding daily or weekly tasks like laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning and child care that can’t be put off. When it comes to caregiving, men tend to be the “fun” parent, or take on educational activities, while mothers, again, tend to be primarily responsible for the day to day, time-sensitive caring. (Men also than women say they do.)

This “gendered division of labor” as sociologists call it, is a big part of what fuels the pay and opportunity gap for women in the workplace, where women, too, are often unconsciously asked to do the low-value and has stalled progress towards real gender equality.

The unfair division of labor is a major source of strife among partners and in families, and a in women seeking to end relationships. Two-thirds of high-achieving women cite a as one of the top reasons they decide to leave full-time work. Same sex partners, on the other hand, around household labor, because there are no traditional gender stereotypes to fall back on, so partners are forced to communicate and negotiate better in order to get things done.

Learning to better share the labor at home, which then creates more time for leisure and connection for everyone, has tangible benefits to health, happiness, relationship quality and gender equality – women’s economic advancement at work and men’s evolving role as involved caregivers at home:

• Several have found that when men make a “fair contribution” to housework, couples report .
• Daughters who see their father doing household chores have
• Women who receive from their partners – sharing chores and caregiving – do better at work and are more likely to advance.
• Men who are involved fathers not only boost their , they experience and more work-family enrichment rather than conflict.
• Actively taking care of loved ones helps people