Post by admin on Jun 30, 2012 19:15:31 GMT 10
Many men are happier when they do their fair share of housework, a new study has found.
The result surprised researchers in charge of the study at the University of Cambridge who expected the opposite to be true.
“The academics expected to find that men’s work-family conflict rose, and their well-being fell, when they did more housework,” a University of Cambridge news release states.
"In practice, they found the opposite, with conflict falling, and well-being going up."
The study conducted in seven European countries with tens of thousands of participants analysed how much time they spent on household chores such as cooking, washing, cleaning, shopping and property maintenance.
They then weighed work-life conflict with other measures of their well-being.
The researchers put the surprise findings down to changing attitudes of men on gender equality as well as women being more assertive than in the past.
"Men may be uncomfortably conscious of work getting in the way of their doing a fair share of chores at home, whereas women have long been used to doing a ‘double shift,'" the study's report said.
Women were not shy about making demands of their partners, it said.
"Women are becoming more assertive and making their dissatisfaction with lazy partners plain."
The result surprised researchers in charge of the study at the University of Cambridge who expected the opposite to be true.
“The academics expected to find that men’s work-family conflict rose, and their well-being fell, when they did more housework,” a University of Cambridge news release states.
"In practice, they found the opposite, with conflict falling, and well-being going up."
The study conducted in seven European countries with tens of thousands of participants analysed how much time they spent on household chores such as cooking, washing, cleaning, shopping and property maintenance.
They then weighed work-life conflict with other measures of their well-being.
The researchers put the surprise findings down to changing attitudes of men on gender equality as well as women being more assertive than in the past.
"Men may be uncomfortably conscious of work getting in the way of their doing a fair share of chores at home, whereas women have long been used to doing a ‘double shift,'" the study's report said.
Women were not shy about making demands of their partners, it said.
"Women are becoming more assertive and making their dissatisfaction with lazy partners plain."
