How Men and Women Spend Their Time

How Men and Women Spend Their Time

In one of my many failed schemes to introduce a more equitable division of labor into my home, I stuck lined Post-it Notes on the refrigerator. Although they did a few household tasks—a load of dishes here, a trash run there—my husband and daughters declined to participate. The results of the 2018 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), released last week, succeed where I didn’t in demonstrating the continuing imbalance in American family life—writ large.