Sharing the Load: Men’s and Women’s Attitudes Toward Household and Childcare Tasks

We investigated emerging adults’ (n=200) and middle-aged adults’ (n=100) feelings of like/dislike toward household and childcare tasks. There was no childcare task that men rated more favorably than women did. Male-female differences in enjoyment of tasks mirrored male-female differences in how they wanted to split up tasks with a partner.