Housework takes a heavy toll. Women may be more likely to die after a heart attack than men because they do more housework, childcare and looking after relatives. Women who have heart disease tend to ...

Men did about six hours of housework a week in 1976, compared with about 13 hours in 2005. But when the researchers looked at just the last 10 years, comparing how much housework single men and women ...

Housework is linked to sharper memory, attention span, and better leg strength, and by extension, greater protection against falls, in older adults, finds research published in the open access journal ...

Research shows women tend to do more of the so-called office housework and the reasons why may surprise you. WSJ's Rachel Feintzeig explains. Don’t pour water for everyone at the conference table. Don ...

I began working in private practice with adults and couples in 2009. Over the decade-plus that I’ve been in practice, there have been many cultural shifts. One major change that I’ve observed is that ...

While women still do nearly twice as much housework as men, the division of labor between boys and girls doing household chores is nearly equal, according to a recent University of Michigan study. The ...

Housework is more than just a fetish – it’s a factual turn on. (Photo: Getty Images) From rhino horn to oysters to asparagus, most aphrodisiacs have been exposed for the scams they are — all but ...

When Marie Kondo recently admitted that she’s going a bit easier on the housework because she now has three kids, it sent the internet into overdrive and made headlines around the world. Kondo, who ...

A recent study by Norwegian researchers Thomas Hansen and Britt Slagsvold suggests that equally sharing housework with your spouse may not lead to happiness ever after. Analyzing data of thousands of ...

Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women, according to a University of Michigan study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. For men, the picture is ...