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Article: Who Does Housework in Married Couples, and When? Jerry Maguire May Have Been Right: 'Show Me the Money'.
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- September 3, 2007
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Byline: Council on Contemporary Families
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- What reduces women's housework burden? A new study shows that on average it doesn't have much to do with her husband's help or his earnings, but how much money SHE earns. The more she earns, the less housework she does.
THE OLD NEWS: For over a decade, people who study how men and women share (or don't share) housework offered a depressing answer to the question of when a woman can expect to stop doing the lion's share of housework. The data suggested that when women earned as much or more than their male partners, they did MORE housework.
THE NEW NEWS: A new study ...