Women Do More Housework, Men Less Upon Marriage

But who's mowing the lawn, fixing the cars in the garage, painting the house, fixing the broken electrial outlet, fixing the toilet, shoveling the snow?

I agree. Sometimes I think I'd rather do the "28" hours of laundry, cooking, and cleaning than the "10" hours I spend breaking my back shoveling the long 3 car wide driveway, mowing the 1 acre of land while sweating like a pig, scraping up my nuckles while fixing the car, hammering my finger while building shelves, sand boxes, and a roof for the kennel, getting covered in bugs while going into the crawl space.. in addition to painting, trimming weeds, brush, dead branches from trees, taking loads of things to the compost site, or loads of junk to the dump, putting up the yard shed, adding fencing, re-doing the wiring, hanging sheet rock inhaling hazardous materials & adding insulation to keep us warm, then itching for a few days after.. thats just the beginning.. there's also the camper floor that needs to be replaced.. the boat that needs to be winterized every year, the rock garden that needs to be finished, the mail box that has to be replaced because the snowplow ran it over.. cemment work, driveway resurface, sidewalk edging.. This doesn't include the cooking I do, which I do about half of.. the diapers I change, the bathrooms I clean, the dishes I do. Ok, so I don't do laundry or vacuum or dust.. but still, not bad for "10" hours of work. Seriously, who does these studies? And who are they interviewing? Wives/girlfriends of the lazy dudes that just sit and play playstation all day long? Give us some credit :)

It really shouldn't matter how many hours are spent by husbands and wives doing the household chores as long as the couple is happy with the arrangement, and the chores are getting done. I agree that I'd much rather spend more time doing laundry and cooking meals than less time painting the house or mowing the lawn (although the lawn usually ends up on my chore list). The main thing is that one person doesn't feel that he/she is doing all of the work while the other person is sitting around watching TV.