This was one of the findings in a paper on work, family and marital satisfaction by three university professors. The study also found that a working woman's marital happiness depended a lot on her husband's involvement in household work and how much time he spent with the family. The need for working wives to have their husbands home more often is because these women find they have little time to fulfil their home responsibilities on top of work commitments, said Dr Straughan. When the husband spends more time at work, obviously he has less time at home to do his chores. Dr Straughan, a sociologist, said they focused on work as dual-income families are becoming the norm.
Work affects family because the same people who play work roles also play family roles.
We wanted to find out how they cope with multiple roles. If you can't manage your household labour, it's likely to affect your view on married life, positively or negatively. About 1,000 women surveyed felt that they shouldered more of the housework, claiming that, on average, they did three times the number of chores their partners did. But more than 88 per cent said they were satisfied with this division of household labour. But in a signal that this situation is unlikely to last, the survey found that the more liberal and contemporary a woman was, the more likely she was to be unhappy with such a state of affairs.