Sentences with phrase «divide household labor»

A new study says couples who equally or fairly divide household labor have more sex.

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Put differently, the only way to reduce debt is to allocate the cost to some sector of the economy, and broadly speaking these sectors are the household sector, the private sector, the state sector, and the various more specialized subsectors within these three — for example households can consist of rich households versus the rest, the state sector can be divided among the central government and the provincial governments, the private sector can consist of SMEs, large corporations, labor - intensive industries, capital - intensive industries, the export sector, etc..

Indeed, as recently as 2013, an article in the American Sociological Review found that couples who divided housework more equally had lower marital and sexual satisfaction and less frequent sex than couples where the woman did the bulk of the household labor.

In today's social climate, relationship quality and stability are generally highest when couples divide up the household labor in a way they see as equitable or fair.