Introduction There has long been established a link between women’s participation in paid labor and the division of chores between partners at home. Women who participate in paid work have less time and have the economic wherewithal to hire help; therefore, they experience less in household work. In theory, there are words such as “time availability” and “specialization” which intersect with others, such as “relative resources” and “time availability”; these are variables that distill to a trade-off between unpaid and paid work (Mendiola et al., 2017, pp. 42–62). The decision to engage in either could stem from rational economic decisions between partners or from a negotiation based on available resources. The essence of this revelation is that women’s financial independence is a crucial factor in determining the division of chores in the home. This paper will focus on the factors affecting the division of chores in the home. The dependent variable in the study is the number of hours spent on housework per week. One independent factor that will be investigated includes years of full-time education completed. It has been established that women’s economic independence affects their availability for chores; interestingly, studies show that women breadwinners still do more house chores (Mendiola et al., 2017, pp. 42–62). Another factor that will be investigated is the number of children living at home. It is natural to expect the number of children to be directly correlated with the amount of work available in the house. Since it has been established that the labor situation culminates in a rational agreement most of the time, one would expect one of the parents to remain at home to take care of children. Marital status will also be investigated as an independent factor given that unmarried people have nobody to negotiate with and have fewer children and fewer resources. However, this experiment goes a step further to make the legality of the marital status a variable. According to Cerrato and Cifre (2018, pp 1330), women do more housework than men; however, this pattern is most prevalent among married. Women in spousal relationships spend more time on household chores than those in de facto relationships. Employment relations will also be analyzed as an independent variable. There’s no doubt that the type of employment affects the resources available, which in turn affects the negotiation on who will do the labor. One would expect a self-employed person to reap the benefits that come with autonomy. A recent study revealed that working from home or freelancing leads to women shouldering a more significant proportion of household chores (Del Boca et al., 2020, pp 1001-1017). Correlation and regression analyses will be conducted on these variables. The dependent variable is the number of hours in a week spent on household chores. Stepwise regression will be used to try different blocks of variables to check their cumulative effect on the dependent variable’s variability. Even after incrementally adding other variables, gender was the most critical factor in predicting labor division in the home. Methods The data for this report is obtained from the European Social Survey (ESS) 2010 roun