{"id":1020,"date":"2016-01-08T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/do-you-do-the-ironing-or-do-you-take-out-the-bins-it-may-be-time-to-gender-swap-your-chores\/"},"modified":"2016-01-09T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T17:00:20","slug":"do-you-do-the-ironing-or-do-you-take-out-the-bins-it-may-be-time-to-gender-swap-your-chores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/do-you-do-the-ironing-or-do-you-take-out-the-bins-it-may-be-time-to-gender-swap-your-chores\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you do the ironing or do you take out the bins? It may be time to gender-swap your chores"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nEven the most forward-thinking families can find themselves contributing to a gendered division of labour. The 2016 #ChoreChallenge aims to highlight how many women are working a \u2018second shift\u2019A fortnight ago, I received the following tweet: \u201cHusband casually mentioned today he has never cleaned our bathroom \u2013 it\u2019s always me! How did I miss that for 31 years?!\u201dApart from chortling at one response (\u201cyou were too busy cleaning the bathroom!\u201d), the thing that struck me about the tweet was just how much it resonated with my own experiences and those I had heard from other women. Even among feminist friends and forward-thinking families, it\u2019s fascinating to see how our insistence on gender equality in every other area of life sometimes falters before the stubborn persistence of gendered chores. This goes both for the type of tasks (who does the laundry and washes up? Who takes out the bins?) and the quantity of time spent doing them. A recent BBC survey found that women spend twice as much time on chores as men, devoting well over the equivalent of one working day per week to household duties. And a Mumsnet survey of 1,000 working mothers found that only 5% of men took responsibility for giving the house a weekly clean, compared with 71% of women. The stark division in unpaid labour also encompasses childcare \u2013 from who looks after children at weekends to who is expected to take time off when children are sick \u2013 and persists even in surveys of heterosexual couples where the male partner doesn\u2019t have a job. Among same-sex couples, some studies have suggested that there is likely to be a fairer division of chores, while others seem to suggest there is still a somewhat \u201cgendered\u201d division of labour, with the lower-earning partner tending to take on chores traditionally considered \u201cwomen\u2019s work\u201d, such as cooking. Continue reading…
\n
\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Do you do the ironing or do you take out the bins? It may be time to gender-swap your chores<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even the most forward-thinking families can find themselves contributing to a gendered division of labour....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-gs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":74498,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-old-lady-in-danger-as-bank-of-england-ditches-gendered-language\/","url_meta":{"origin":1020,"position":0},"title":"The Old Lady in danger as Bank of England ditches gendered language","date":"December 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...The Old Lady in danger as Bank of England ditches gendered language","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50922,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/visit-a-village-thats-verging-on-greatness-brief-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":1020,"position":1},"title":"Visit a village that\u2019s verging on greatness | Brief letters","date":"April 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Daffodils on verges | Gendered Oscars | Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism | The world\u2019s oldest continuously established parliament | The Boat Race | San SerriffeI agree with Jill Bennett (Letters, 4 April) that daffodils may not look great on urban verges, but here in Old Buckenham we persuaded the parish council to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133445,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/home-truths-about-who-does-the-housework-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":1020,"position":2},"title":"Home truths about who does the housework | Letters","date":"December 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Helen Keating, Emily Bird and Carole Ludlow Mooney on women doing the domestic work and men not noticing. Plus Mark Lewinski-Grende speaks up for his tribeThere was I thinking that what was mentioned in your article on cleaning (Philosophers tackle ancient mystery of why women clean and men don\u2019t\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":165487,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/91-of-women-leaders-in-the-uae-optimistic-about-gender-equality-in-ai-leadership-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":1020,"position":3},"title":"91% of women leaders in the UAE optimistic about gender equality in AI leadership \u2013 report","date":"November 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Cloudera survey finds optimism among women in tech but warns that under-representation, limited training access, and token diversity efforts remain key challenges The post 91% of women leaders in the UAE optimistic about gender equality in AI leadership \u2013 report appeared first on Arabian Business: Latest News on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/women-leaders-1000x667-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":127377,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/women-face-100-year-wait-for-end-of-gender-pay-gap\/","url_meta":{"origin":1020,"position":4},"title":"Women face 100-year wait for end of gender pay gap","date":"June 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Women face 100-year wait for end of gender pay gap","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":76992,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/women-lose-out-on-nearly-140bn-a-year-due-to-gender-pay-gap\/","url_meta":{"origin":1020,"position":5},"title":"Women lose out on nearly \u00a3140bn a year due to gender pay gap","date":"January 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Women lose out on nearly \u00a3140bn a year due to gender pay gap","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}