美国密歇根大学的一项最新研究结果表明，已婚女性每星期比未婚女性多做大约7小时家务劳动，而已婚男性每星期则平均比未婚男性少做1小时家务。

　　密歇根大学社会研究学院教授弗兰克·斯塔福德主持了这一研究。他说：“婚后劳动再分配趋势很明显，男性更愿主外，女性则在家务上付出更多。”

　　研究表明，20岁到30岁的年轻单身女性做家务最少，平均每星期约12小时，60岁到70岁的已婚女性做家务最多，每星期大约21小时。

　　斯塔福德说，尽管每户人家的具体情况可能有所不同，但总的来说，婚姻对女性而言意味着更多家务，而对男性而言正好相反。

　　研究人员利用密歇根大学社会研究学院历年来积累的动态收入数据，分析研究人们如何支配时间。除了利用历年积累的数据，研究人员还对男性和女性在洗衣做饭等家务事方面分别花费多少时间做了调查。

　　研究结果还显示，男性在承担家务方面的表现比以前有所改善。1976年，已婚男性每星期只花7小时做家务，这一数字在2005年则是13小时。

我好像不只多受累7个小时，呜。。。呜。。。呜。。。惨啊

付上英文版＾＾

Men create more housework for women

Having a husband creates an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study.

　　Having a husband creates an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study. For men, tying the knot saves an hour of weekly chores.
　　"It's a well-known pattern," said lead researcher Frank Stafford, an economist at University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. "Men tend to work more outside the home, while women take on more of the household labor."
　　He points out individual differences among households exist. But in general, marriage means more housework for women and less for men. "And the situation gets worse for women when they have children," Stafford said.
　　Overall, times are changing in the American home. In 1976, women busied themselves with 26 weekly hours of sweeping-and-dusting work, compared with 17 hours in 2005. Men are pitching in more, more than doubling their housework hours from six in 1976 to 13 in 2005.
　　Stafford analyzed time-diaries and questionnaires from a nationally representative sample of men and women over a 10-year period from 1996 to 2005. The federally-funded study showed that, both the men and the women who got married did more housework than those who stayed single.
　　"Marriage is no longer a man's path to less housework," he said.
　　Single women in their 20s and 30s did the least housework, about 12 weekly hours, while married women in their 60s and 70s did the most - about 21 hours a week.
　　Men showed a somewhat different pattern, with older men picking up the broom more often than younger men. Single guys worked the hardest around the house, trumping all age groups of married men.
　　Having kids boosts house chores even further. With more than three kids, for instance, wives took on more of the extra work, clocking about 28 hours a week compared with husbands' 10 hours.
　　（Agencies）

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