Long-term relationships are bad for women who date men
We know that women in opposite sex marriages pick up the bulk of the domestic responsibilities. According to the European Institute for Gender Equality, 91 per cent of women with children spend at least an hour per day on housework, compared with 30 per cent of men with children. That’s despite 72.3 per cent of women being in work. Women pick up most of the caring responsibilities at home, looking after children, aging parents, and their partners.
It is women who do most of the “cognitive labour” at home, which was defined in the American Sociological Review as the responsibility of “anticipating needs, identifying options for filling them, making decisions, and monitoring progress”. This is not to say that men don’t also fulfil these duties, of course they do, but it is overwhelmingly women who take these tasks on, often alongside working full-time themselves.
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