Miss Honeywell and the Housework Gender Gap

An article from 1990 quoting a "recent" study says that "Swedish men do far more housework - 18 hours a week - then any of their global counterparts" (via). Fast forward to 2018 and things do not seem to have changed much. According to figures published by Eurostat and the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Sweden is still the country with the smallest gender gap when it comes to housework. There, 74% of women and 56% of men do housework on a regular basis. The average EU figures are 79% of women and 34% of men. Below EU average are countries like Germany with 72% of women and 29% of men doing the housework, Austria with a bigger gap, i.e., 83% of women and 28% of men, and Greece with 85% of women and only 16% of men doing housework on a regular basis (via).



Miss Honeywell "I make someone a good wife"



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