By Shannon Proudfoot, Canwest News ServiceKids pick up the slack on housework when their fathers work longer hours, new research suggests, and by the time they're 10 years old, girls are doing more chores around the house than boys.
"We expected that as a generation or two of women have gone out into the labour force, the gender differences would have faded in their children, but that's not happening," said Constance Gager, a sociologist in the department of family and child studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Kids aged 10 to 18 reported an average of 7.3 hours of housework each week spent on tasks like setting the table, doing laundry and caring for pets. However, girls spend 50 minutes more on chores each week than boys.
Funny... The girls in my home certainly do not do more chores. In fact, it seems to be "a chore" to get them to do do their work. My son is the keen one when it comes to chores.
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