2. Is housework fairly distributed in your house?
• During the last three decades the family system in most
industrialized countries has moved from the traditional
breadwinner-housewife type toward a system
characterized by dual-earner households.
• While in the seventies more than sixty percent of married
couples were breadwinner households, at the beginning of
the twenty-first century, more than sixty percent of
European and American married couples are dual-earner
(Eurostat, 2002; US Department of Labor, 2004).
• One of the questions that arises from this new scenario is
whether the disappearance of the traditional breadwinner
household system has been accompanied by a more
egalitarian distribution of domestic duties between
spouses.
4. Who usually does the housework in your family
Cook
Clean the dust
Do the ironing
Lay the table
Make the bed
Sweep
Repair the car
Do the shopping
Do the washing up
Do the washing up
Wash clothes
Take out the rubbish
Help with the homework
Take the dog for a walk
Take care of babies and old people
vacuum
