Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials Highlight

However, they do not remotely reduce their housework hour-for-hour for time spent in paid labor. And while their male partners increase their own time in housework, this is not nearly as much as working wives reduce theirs. The upshot is that rather less unpaid household labor gets done overall in the dual-earner household—but women’s total combined time in paid and unpaid household labor is substantially greater than is the typical nonemployed women’s in domestic labor alone….The working woman is much busier than either her male colleague or her housewife counterpart.