We often believe that household chores are nowadays shared equally among young couples. The figures however, do not reflect this optimism: over 60% of men under 35 who live with a partner state that they are not solely responsible for any domestic chore, 25% more than women of this age. At the other extreme, the percentage of young women who state that they are exclusively responsible for between three and five domestic chores is over five times higher than the number of men stating that they do this much work.
We can, therefore, deduce that domestic chores are only evenly distributed in 36% to 40% of young households.
Gender in figures
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Do social inequalities affect health?
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Men’s and women’s education?
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Diversity of origin and migration projects
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Who called it work-life balance?
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How millennials share domestic chores
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Economic independence at risk?
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Gender in ten key economic sectors
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To get married: a personal, political or economic decision?
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Putting off motherhood for a decade
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Balanced representation on local councils?
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The barriers to economic power are still in place
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Living in fear of your partner
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Where did it happen?
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Differences and similarities in day-to-day culture
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Creative women: presence in cultural life
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Men and women in the film industry
Observatori iQ
iQ is a cooperative that seeks to contribute to social innovation in favor of gender equality. The cooperative offers the iQ Observatory, a platform that delivers statistical data on the differences and inequalities between men and women in different areas of everyday life in Catalonia. iQ team is made up of professionals with several profiles and is led by the political scientist Maria de la Fuente.