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WOMEN are still responsible for the lion’s share of household and family tasks even when working outside of home, Mumsnet revealed yesterday.
Britain’s largest website for parents said that working mums undertake an average of 10 hours of chores a week — twice as many hours as men.
Out of 54 tasks including arranging childcare, managing routine health appointments and buying birthday presents, mothers were chiefly responsible for 36 of them and 15 were roughly shared, the poll of 1,000 working mums revealed.
Taking the bins out, changing lightbulbs and DIY tasks were the only three that men primarily took responsibility for.
Mumsnet chief executive Justine Roberts said “One-in-three working mums is the main family wage earner, a rise of one million over the last 18 years.
“But despite this, women are still busting a gut back home, responsible for the vast majority of chores and domestic responsibilities. It’s not surprising we still talk about glass ceilings and the lack of women at the top. Most of us are just too exhausted to climb the greasy pole.”
