In a post in the Mums Who Cook, Clean and Organise Facebook group, mother-of-four Brooke Smith shared how she never went to sleep unless certain tasks were done — even if it meant a late night. “I ...

In Japan, wives spend an average of seven times as much time doing housework as their husbands. A national survey on household changes, conducted every five years by the National Institute of ...

Many schools across Japan were closed during the COVID-19 state of emergency in April and May. A survey conducted by Nomura Research Institute has revealed that in households with children, women ...

TOKYO -- More than 20% of men in Japan's Tochigi Prefecture believe they share housework equally with their spouse, while nearly 30% of women say they do 90% of household chores, according to a recent ...

The one-hour cleaning method offers a simple strategy to maintain a tidy home without feeling overwhelmed. By dedicating just ...

The 2015 NHK Japanese Time Use Survey revealed that although the time spent on housework is increasing among adult men and decreasing among adult women in the long run, there still remains a ...

TOKYO -- More than half of married women in a recent survey in Japan said they were "dissatisfied" with their husband's housework last year -- or lack thereof. Shufu Job Soken, a private research ...

Young parents in China are relaxing at home while their children take care of the housework after school, as the trend of “reverse parenting” goes viral. Yuanyuan, a primary school student from ...

In Japan, where women do five times as much housework as men, three male politicians have donned "pregnancy" vests in a campaign urging men to help out more at home. In a time of both misinformation ...

In this paper, we empirically analyze the relationship between the husband's participation in housework/child-rearing and the wife's labor participation. To cope with endogeneity between them, we use ...