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Article: Less housework but it's still a chore - for women
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- July 20, 2006
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SCOTS have downed their dusters and hung up their Hoovers - we are
doing less housework than ever before. Yet when it comes to cleaning
the house, women are still doing more than men.
New research from the Office for National Statistics shows we
spent an average of two hours 22 minutes per day on housework last
year - half an hour less than in 2000.
The survey reveals that 77-per cent of men and 92-per cent of
women spent some time each day during housework, compared with 86-
per cent and 96-per cent respectively, in 2000.
But the girls were more houseproud - whatever their income, they
spent more time on chores than men, even those who work full-time.
They gave up an average of two hours 31 ...