For the consolation of Swedish men, I'll note that at least, they do less housework than their Dutch and American counterparts (79 vs 83 vs 82) though our ladies still manage to spend about 2.5 hours per day cleaning. The three countries where the men do more than 100min housekeeping a day are Slovenia (114min), Denmark (107min) and Estonia (105min). Slovenian women still work nearly 100 min longer while the Danish are nearly equal in their chore division, with the women engaged in domestic activities only about half an hour longer than their men.
Of all Scandinavian countries, Norway appears to be the most
Spain, on the other hand, is well...Their ladies do even less housework than the Dutch and it says a lot (127 min). Men, with 76 min. don't bother much, either. Compare it with the German and Austrian women who still know what the vacuum-cleaner looks like: respectively, 164 and 170min.
Finally, the Japanese have earned their reputation of being
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I'm a bit surprised; I figured North American women were the laziest. They are the fattest, after all... ;)
ReplyDeleteYou see, it was a misconception;) American women often work quite long hours and still do more housework than their Scandi counterparts who often work part-time as well (at least in Norway and Sweden, don't know about other two countries). So Northern American women are unfairly maligned in this regard:) Canadian ladies work at home even harder, extra 50 minutes on a weekly basis.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know how housework is defined? Is it housework if one drives kids to school etc.? Grocery shopping? Or only the tasks done at home?
ReplyDeleteI must be the laziest lady of the world since I actually think that people seem to use quite a lot of time on housework. But thein again, I have no kids, relatively small flat and hubby does the shopping (mostly) since he drives the car so I propably do much less than average person. I mean in Finland men+women cobined did 3,8 hours of housework daily. I definitely do not do that much.
Maybe the size of the house accounts for some of the increased hours of work in the USA.?
ReplyDeleteGail, I've thought about it, too.
ReplyDeleteHousewife, they probably included cooking. I know someone from Portugal and the lady told me that they cook a lot. They eat two warm meals a day and they spend hours cooking dinner. I think In Northern Europe folks probably cook less?
ReplyDeleteIsn't Sweden supposed to be like the feminist capital of the world where the men are all like "stay at home dads?" And the feminist complain about stupid stuff like "manspreading" and "mansplaining." The horror! The misogyny! And still nobody does housework! :)
ReplyDeleteSorry about the poor grammar. I'm on my phone and the thing just logged me out again, probably because I can't read Dutch and clicked the wrong button...
DeleteNever mind grammar,mine is getting worse every day:)
ReplyDeleteWell, equality obviously means that now nobody is doing the dishes:)
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