Women spent more than twice the amount of time cleaning up as compared to men, sociologists Sarah Thebaud, Leah Ruppanner and Sabino Kornrich ...
Does that make women beacons of cleanliness, while men are genetically unable to see the messiness in their midst?This myth is a common explanation for why men don’t do as much housework as women.
Women today spend, on average, roughly an hour and 20 minutes per day cooking, cleaning and doing laundry. About a third of that is just spent cleaning. Swedish women do two times as much daily housework than men even though women are much more likely to work full-time than in other countries. All participants looked at the one photo they were given and then rated how messy they thought it was and how urgently it needed cleaning.Contrary to popular lore, men and women saw the same mess: They rated the clean room as equally clean and the messy room as equally messy.One argument is that social expectations are different for men and women. Women may be judged more harshly for having a less-than-spotless home, and women’s awareness of these expectations may motivate them to do more.
Compared to their tidier counterparts, both Jennifer and John received substantially more negative character ratings and were expected to garner much more negative judgments from visitors. Finally, people were more likely to believe that Jennifer would bear primary responsibility for cleaning, and this difference was especially large in the hypothetical scenario in which she or he is a full-time working parent living with a spouse.
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