{"id":2951,"date":"2016-11-22T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2024-05-11T22:33:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T21:33:52","slug":"girls-housework-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/girls-housework-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls do more housework than boys, particularly when mothers work long hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reinforces a familiar story by finding that girls aged 8-18 do more routine housework than boys.<\/p>\n<p>However, the difference didn\u2019t grow as the children aged: time spent doing housework increased from middle childhood to mid-adolescence for both boys and girls. But when mothers worked longer hours, it was girls, not boys, who shouldered the burden of more housework.<\/p>\n<p>When young people reported more conflict over housework with their parents, or placed less value on family obligations, doing more housework was associated with more unhappiness and lower school grades.<\/p>\n<p>The research was carried out by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eduhk.hk\/ece\/en\/aboutus.php?s=our_staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Chun Bun Lam<\/a> at the Education University of Hong Kong and was based on home interviews and daily diaries of fathers, mothers, and two siblings in 201 European-American families who participated in a study funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Data were collected annually, on six occasions over seven years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"retrofit-references\">\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 1.8em;\"><em> Lam CB, Greene KM &amp; McHale SM (2016), <a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/psycinfo\/2016-49292-001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Housework time from middle childhood through adolescence: Links to parental work hours and youth adjustment<\/a>, Developmental Psychology<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reinforces a familiar story by finding that girls aged 8-18 do more routine housework than boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[438],"tags":[329,36,41],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18150,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/18150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}