This blog has been quiet for a couple of weeks because I am so overwhelmed by all that needs to get done to meet my goals.  It may be quiet for a little while longer...

But I did read this and it made me wonder if each gender percieves what constitutes housework differently.  Here is an excerpt:

An Oxford University study says if current trends continue, women will probably have to wait until 2050 before men are doing an equal share of the household chores and childcare. According to the paper published in the latest issue of the journal Sociology, ‘substantial and persistent obstacles’ remain.

The amount of time women spend on routine housework still ‘dwarfs’ time spent on non-routine domestic jobs carried out by men.  Nevertheless, there is evidence to show that the gender gap in housework and child care has been narrowing gradually. Women’s time spent on caring and chores in the home declined gradually from about 360 minutes a day in the 1960s for both the UK and US to 280 and 272 minutes, respectively, in the early 2000s. In the UK and the US, men went from spending 90 and 105 minutes a day, respectively, on housework and child care in the 1960s to 148 and 173 minutes in the early part of this millennium. However, the data suggests that the upward trend for men may have levelled off in some countries in recent years.

I think that HippieHusband and I are generally equal in the amount of cleaning, cooking and laundry that we do.  I am probably more fussy about the cleaning so I tend to do more of it but less frequently.  He prefers things to be clean on a daily basis so he does little bits of cleaning more frequently.  We alternate who cooks and does dishes.  I probably cook more but then he does more dishes.  Of course we have gone weeks where we're both so out of our mind busy that nothing gets done.   I imagine that things might be less equal if children entered the equation.

What's it like in your household?