University benefits should include housework help, study suggests.
Female US scientists do nearly twice as much housework as their male counterparts, according to a study in Academe, the online publication of the American Association of University Professors. Science historian Londa Schiebinger of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and analyst Shannon K. Gilmartin found that partnered women scientists at 13 top US institutions do some 54% of household tasks, requiring more than 10 hours a week on top of the 60 hours they work. Partnered male scientists, however, do just 28%. The remainder is done by hired help. The authors propose that university benefits could be made more flexible to include support for housework help.
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From lab to laundry. Nature 463, 575 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7280-575b
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7280-575b