Full-time working Australian women spend, on average, 25 hours doing housework per week. Paul Meyer/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND CHANGING FAMILIES: In this ten-part series, we examine some major changes in ...

Housework is linked to sharper memory, attention span, and better leg strength, and by extension, greater protection against falls, in older adults, finds research published in the open access journal ...

Housework is traditionally understood as an economic exchange – housework for money – or as a form of patriarchy drawn along gendered lines. Yet our new study argues that housework is also divided ...

Housework is often understood as a gendered negotiation based on the traditional roles of homemaker (feminine) and breadwinner (masculine). While gender norms have shifted dramatically in the past few ...