Sentences with phrase «housework equally»

Although less than one - third of the couples we studied shared housework equally, these were the couples who, in contrast to couples in earlier decades, reported the highest marital and sexual satisfaction.

This look at sexual frequency among younger couples in equal marriages refutes recent claims that when a man share the housework equally, it is bad for the couple's sex life.

The study asserts the divorce rate among couples who shared housework equally was around 50 per cent higher than among those where the woman did most of the work.

«When the baby comes, working couples no longer share housework equally.»

(That social commentary aside, I also believe that equality in a relationship is not determined by dividing chores or housework equally or the size of paychecks or changing equal numbers of dirty diapers.

Not exact matches

55 % of working fathers share equally or do most of the domestic chores — and those whose partner does the majority of the housework are significantly more troubled by their work - life balance (Lancaster University Management School / Working Families, 2010)

Food, housework, and money would be shared equally depen..

Others think equality means both partners share equally in doing the housework.

The fact that — despite having an equally busy work schedule — women still do almost double the amount of housework, tells me that men and women are having a hard time putting their theories into practice.

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.

By 2006, couples who reported sharing housework fairly equally, with the man doing more than a third and up to 65 percent of the housework, reported having sex significantly more often than did couples where the woman (or the man) did 65 percent or more of the housework.

Ironically, however, the minority of coupled parents who do equally share childcare and housework report higher levels of sexual and marital satisfaction than couples who divide the work less equally.

Both work full time, and when they first married, they divided the housework fairly equally.

I don't have to put up with my husband not doing his fair share of the housework (actually, we were both equally crap at that), not being involved enough as a parent (erm, I was the one being caned for not doing enough craft with the kids), leaving his fingernail clippings piled on the arm of the sofa (geez that used to get on my goat) and hogging the bed covers (that wasn't a problem either, he was a lizard shivering under the doona while I constantly had a bare leg sticking out to cool down).

I don't have to put up with my husband not doing his fair share of the housework (actually, we were both equally crap at that), not being involved enough as a parent (erm, I was the one being caned for not doing enough craft -LSB-...]