Chore Wars: How to Divide Household Tasks More Fairly
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🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 1:04.9 | From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. Chores are, well, they're a chore. |
| 1:16.7 | And for many households, couples, roommates, families, chosen families, the pandemic tested |
| 1:22.0 | and sometimes broke the systems that people used to get the basics of life done. In heterosexual couples, women usually end up running the household, regardless of any other |
| 1:32.3 | factors, and surveys show that chores are up there with money in terms of stressing a marriage. |
| 1:37.3 | Housemates encounter many of the same issues, especially with so many Bay Area people still working from home, |
| 1:42.3 | but listen, there's hope. That's the message from our guest this morning, and we hope to hear from you, too, about your successes and your failures. |
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| 2:05.6 | Whoa. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. |
| 2:07.6 | I would love to tell you all that in my own house, we have figured out how to equitably split responsibilities, that my children happily sweep and clean, and that we have answers to a happy domestic arrangement. |
| 2:20.3 | But we're trying. |
| 2:22.4 | And we have been for years. |
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