"It's Your Turn, Whether You Want to or Not" : Men's and Women's Household Task Distribution Preferences

Abstract

To investigate gender differences in activity preferences in a sample without lifetime constraints, we asked young men and women to report their foreseen enjoyment of various household and childcare tasks. We predict that male-female differences in enjoyment of household and childcare tasks will parallel male-female differences in how men and women expect to share household and childcare tasks with a partner.