Study finds women continue to do the most housework in 2020, despite COVID-19 lockdowns

A recent study found women are continuing to do the most housework, despite COVID-19 lockdowns. But is everything as it seems, asks this letter writer.

A recent study has found that women are continuing to do the most housework (I’m not game to ask or do research on housework at our place) in 2020.

Supposedly it’s fuelling tension between partners, but do you really want to sample my cooking?

Enough said.

Flinders Uni professor in psychology Damien Riggs said that the research concentrated on three areas of the home: caring for the kids, a problem we don’t too often have, the solving of disputes between partners and the distribution of the said housework.

He says that the issues are exacerbated by the current COVID situation, as there is more housework as a result of folk spending more time at home either working from home or else due to COVID-related shutdowns.

His big question was “are the men engaging in enough housework as a result or not?”

He said it’s good to have dad home with the kids, but is he really changing nappies, cooking, doing the washing and cleaning?

We wonder if Professor Riggs is married or single.

RAY HARCH, Toowoomba