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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw that. I was curious about some of the phrasing in this paragraph:

"American women tend to do more housework than women in other countries—about four and a half hours each week, on average. “Meanwhile, Spanish women only spend about an hour and a half a week on housework, Brazilian women spend only 1.6 hours a week,” they write. But “French women spend almost no time on housework at all. French men, on the other hand, spend 1.2 hours a week on housework, well more than the .8 hours a week spent by American men.” (Ladies, your secret, s'il vous plaît!) Also, “Japanese and Slovenian men do the most housework, at 1.3 and 1.4 hours a week.”"

From that, it's not clear to me whether Spanish and Brazilian men are spending more time on housework than American men. It seems to glory in French men doing 1.2 hours per week of housework but, if you do the math on the 15 minutes per day it says American men do on housework, that works out to 1.05 hours per week -- or a difference of about 9 minutes per week. (Though there is some conflicting information in the article, in one place, it says 15 minutes per day while in another, it says 0.8 per week -- which would be 6.9 minutes per day.)

[b]But, why the hell are American women spending 3.15 hours per week on housework when nobody else comes close? [/b][/quote]

Beats me but I think I'm going to be French for the week.  [/quote]

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