I keep reading that U.S. men are doing more and more housework than in the past; supposedly it started around the time of the Covid pandemic. But in my personal experience of others in my generation (Boomer), the men are not doing a bit more housework than they always have, even men whose wives work (or used to work) just as many, sometimes more, hours outside the home as their husbands.
In fact, I know a man who was really worried about how much money he had but when his wife--who worked just as many hours outside the home he did--died before he did, ran right out & hired someone to clean house and do laundry. Well, you might say, maybe he had plenty other things he had to do, for instance yard work, taking care of grandchildren, you say? Nope. He had no yard work, his grandchildren lived miles away--he'd never changed a diaper or taken care of a kid ever anyway--his cooking consisted of cooking frozen dinners in the microwave, he spent almost all his time watching tv and online.
And it's not just our old, backward generation. I notice with the younger generations (around here anyway), both husband and wife work full-time jobs outside the home; but when they come home, the wife is doing almost all the child care and housework and the husband is playing video games. (Only difference with us Boomers: the husband is watching the History channel.)
