For the first time, researchers have evidence of exactly what dads are doing while moms are taking care of housework or tending to their child. The study found that three months after the birth of their first child, on days when couples were not working, men were most often relaxing while women did housework or child care.
One telling statistic: Women spent 46 to 49 minutes relaxing while men did child care or housework on their day off. But men spent about twice that amount of time in leisure – about 101 minutes – while their partners did some kind of work. the study, published online in the journal Sex Roles.
On their days off, men were relaxing 46 percent of the time while their partners did child care. In contrast, women were engaged in leisure only 16 percent of the time when their partners were taking care of their child.
Results were similar for housework, where fathers took 35 percent of the time off while their partner did tasks like cleaning. Women took 19 percent of the time off when men did housework.
— source news.osu.edu 2017-10-10