14 DAY TRIAL // According to the conclusions of a new study conducted on 182 couples in the United States by researchers at the Ohio State University, it would appear that women are more likely to be tasked with taking care of children, even if they too are working a full-time job.
The work revealed that mothers were more likely to invest most of their time into parenting than their husbands, even when they worked the same number of hours per week. Previous studies had suggested that men were slowly becoming more interested in lending a helping hand.
“Both parents may think they should divide child care responsibilities equally, but mothers still feel a special pressure to show they are being the best parent they can be,” explains OSU associate professor of human sciences, Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, also a co-author of the new study.
The conclusions were all the more surprising when considering that the research team specifically selected couples where both parents were working, and that could be classified as middle-class, middle-income earners, Science Blog reports.