‘Household labor’ study design is biased against men

Article here. Excerpt:

'A recent paper that claims to find women face greater burdens than men when it comes to household chores is flawed in its design.

“The division of household labor is an important but often overlooked driver of global gender inequity,” the Archives of Women’s Mental Health paper suggests. “Women carry a disproportionate burden of domestic tasks, and this burden may be linked with their health and wellbeing.”

The lead authors are psychology grad student Elizabeth Aviv and Professor Darby Saxbe, both at the University of Southern California. They wrote a summary of their research for The Conversation as well.

But the scholars designed the study in such a way, intentionally or not, as to bias the results to make it seem like women do a disproportionate amount of work in the house.'