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Research shows husbands create an extra seven hours a week of housework for wives.
Based on a representative sample of all U.S. families, a recent study of housework trends revealed husbands create an extra seven hours a week of housework for wives, but wives save husbands from about an hour of housework a week.
The study was part of the University of Michigan's Panel Study on Income Dynamics--the world's longest running study of it's kind--conducted since 1968, that collects data on the economic, health and social behavior of the same nearly 8,000 U.S. families year after year.
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