Study: Men Work Hard, Too

By Colleen Barry,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 18, 2007 1:33 PM CDT
Study: Men Work Hard, Too
Men at Work sign.   ((c) General Wesc)

Men and women work about the same number of hours—if you count labor at home as well as on the job, a new study claims. Despite the popular wisdom that women do more heavy lifting, a broad survey of 25 countries, spanning the economic spectrum,  found that both sexes toil about 7.9 hours a day, Slate reports.

If the averages seem low, it's because they include weekend hours and stay-at-home parents. In wealthy countries, the sexes have parity, though there are a few countries—Italy and France—where women exert themselves more. And in poor countries, women do shoulder more of the burden—the poorer they are the harder they work. (More women stories.)

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