65 percent of men say they split household chores equally with their spouses, but only 47 percent of women agree. We wonder what laundry day is like in those 18 percent of households where spouses don't see eye to eye. Married women are more evenly split, with 47 percent saying they and their spouses do equal amounts of work and 47 percent saying they do not. It should come as no surprise to most women that men are both more likely to think that household chores are shared fairly, and to agree that women still do most of the work around the house. Married men say household chores are split fairly by a 71 percent to 16 percent margin.
Married women are less sanguine about the arrangement.
The sexes are also split on who has the better deal. They may be right. That just shows men might be from Mars, but women live in the real world. The two lawyers were taking a deposition when one claimed he and his wife shared household chores equally.