The U.S. Economy Would Be Better Off If Men Did More Housework

By Jeanna Smialek
Bloomberg

Women spend too much time on housework relative to men, new research suggests, and it’s probably dragging on U.S. productivity.

That’s the first finding in this week’s economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance-sheet normalization.

Less time for bringing home the baconWomen have less time for on-the-job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they’re working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

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