Women are spending less time doing chores – what that means for gender equality (Audio)
Women are spending less time doing chores – what that means for gender equality (Audio)
- September 13, 2016
- Judith Treas, sociology, explains on Southern California Public Radio, Sept. 13, 2016
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Judith Treas, Chancellor’s Professor of sociology at UC Irvine, says there are two reasons women are spending less time on household chores: women’s high labor force participation has left them with less time for chores and couples are marrying much later in life, forcing bachelors to figure out how to do their own laundry.
For the full story, please visit http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2016/09/13/52036/women-are-spending-less-time-doing-chores-why-is-t/.
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