Men think they're doing their share of housework. They're not.

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'The household gender divide is as old as time. Studies show that even in progressive (heterosexual) households, women tend to do more of the housework than men. Is there any hope of change?

Men "seem to think" they are doing their fair share of the chores, said The Washington Post. A YouGov survey revealed that 81% of men living with partners "responded with confidence" that they were pulling their weight around the house. But statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics tell a somewhat different story: Women "cooked, cleaned and did yard work" for nearly two hours a day, according to the study. Their male partners did only half that amount. But that is more housework than men used to do — and the increased chore time is coming largely in the form of meal preparation. "Men are gaining," said the Post.

Overall, though, the gender divide "continues to linger," Bev Betkowski said at the University of Alberta's Folio. New research from the university suggests that women who carried the bulk of the housework load at age 25 still bear the same heavy burdens decades later as they move into middle age — and that "women's domestic workload only increased during the child-rearing years." It is important to lay out the ground rules early. When patterns are "set early in the relationship, they tend to persist," said Matthew Johnson, a relationship researcher at the University of Alberta.'