Study Shows Men Doing More Childcare & Housework Than Pre-COVID
A new study shows something amazing happened during the height of Coronavirus stay-at-home orders, men started doing more childcare and housework than before COVID-19 hit.
1,600 parents were studied during mid-April and the results of the study show men doing more around the household, making the share of household chores more equal between men and women.
Before the pandemic, only 27 percent of couples said they shared the housework and child-rearing. Afterward, the percentage went up to 47 percent. Childcare went from 45 percent to 56 percent in mid-April.
Visualization of change in US parents' div of housework during the COVID-19 pandemic. 58% growth in equal sharing. Nearly half of those sharing equally had mothers doing most of the housework before the pandemic. Only 13% of couples went from equal shares to mother doing most 1/n pic.twitter.com/hAxKiGtDff
— Daniel L. Carlson @[email protected] (@DanielCarlson_1) June 22, 2020
Daniel L. Carlson, an associate professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah and one of the study’s researchers says the uptick is out of necessity because couples find themselves working from home and the need for couples to share household responsibilities is greater so that one parent can work.
