How does “contribution to household chores” affect marital relations? The ideal and reality of household chore division. Over half of women and men says ideal situation was “50/50”. Reality is only 23% reported their husband do more than half

"Taking out the trash" was the only task where men ranked higher than women, but it was women who had to gather all the trash in rooms and put into a bag. Men only threw that collected trash bag to garbage collection area.

The biggest gender differences were seen in "cooking," "cleaning the toilet," and "laundry." There were also differences between men and women in "childcare." All these tasks were mainly done by women.