Is your housework split sexist?

Do you ever have fights with your partner about who does more of the housework and whether it’s fair? Well data might have the answer.

Corinne Low is an associate professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She analyses surveys of how people spend their time, particularly in terms of “home production” - that is things like cooking and cleaning, and “market work”, that is, paid work. She has written two books on the subject - Femonomics in the UK, and Having It All in the US.

If you are the male half of a heterosexual couple, then she has got some stats you should hear.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Series producer: Tom Colls
Sound engineer: Giles Aspen
Production co-ordinator: Janet Staples
Editor: Richard Vadon