Saturday, March 08, 2008
"But before you take to the streets crowing that things are equal, the study released Wednesday found that even in families where both partners hold down a full-time job - the families in which men do the most housework - the guy still does only 37 percent of the laundry, cooking, cleaning and child care. "What it comes down to is men are doing more," said Scott Coltrane, a University of California-Riverside sociologist who co-authored the review released by the Council on Contemporary Families. "They were starting at such a low level, however, that they don't rival what women do.""