Sentences with phrase «caring about housework»

Not exact matches

Dual - income fathers spend about 11 hours more than mothers in paid work per week, but mothers make up their hours by spending more time on average time in child care and housework.

Married dads spend 18 hours per week more in paid work than do married moms, and in return, moms spend about 10 hours more in housework and seven hours more in child care, which brings the total work time of married dads to about one hour per week more than moms.

Free time is usually measured by the residual time after subtracting time spent in paid work, housework, child care, commuting and personal care, while leisure time is more about time spent in activities that relate to relaxation.

In contrast, when moms stay at home and dads work for pay, they average about 26 hours per week in housework and about 20 hours in child care, more than three times as much as what their working partners put into these activities.

For these reasons, it's important to talk about who will take care of housework, yard work, bills and cooking.

They will need to have a clear agreement about the roles each partner will fill — who will sacrifice their career to care for a baby, how housework should be divided, and so on.

You probably already know how I'll answer but before you say yes or no, let's look at what Edmiston includes in her article's «utopian marriage contract» — agreements about birth control, having / adopting children, how children will be brought up, whose job will determine where and how the couple lives (including separate bedrooms or homes), how child care and housework will be divvied up, how they will handle finances, and sexual rights and freedoms.

So the fathers and husbands maybe feel less guilt about child care and housework so long as they are delivering on the bread winning.