Housework or sleep? Study says it depends when you were born
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Generation X women are more likely to do housework, care for children, read for pleasure and do lawn work, a new study found. Millennial women are more inclined to exercise, spend leisure time on computers, take care of their pets and sleep.
The women, ages 50 and 25, respectively, illustrate the pace of change from one generation to the next in what people do in an average day. The changes were revealed in a study released last week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Generation X women were more likely to do housework, care for children, read for pleasure and do lawn work, the study found. Millennial women were more inclined to exercise, spend leisure time on computers, take care of their pets and sleep.
The report uses American Time Use Survey data to capture how people lived at a point in time between the ages of 23 and 38. For Amy Rottier's generation, that was in 2003. For her daughter Helen, it was in 2019 -- a year before the global coronavirus pandemic dramatically altered patterns of living. The report reflects changes for men as well as women.
Both generations spent the same amount of time working, and men worked longer hours than women because women were more likely to work part time. The two generations spent about the same time on leisure and sports activities, but Gen Xers were more likely than millennials to have children and own homes.
