HOW MUCH HOUSEWORK DOES A HUSBAND CREATE? I was thinking about this study while I was cooking dinner. . . .

Of course, if you read past the headline you discover that it’s really marriage that creates more housework:

Both the men and the women who got married did more housework than those who stayed single, the analysis showed.

These studies are always set up and headlined, though, to make men sound like losers. How about this: How much yardwork and fix-it work does a wife create? I was thinking about this while I was solving my wife’s computer problem this afternoon . . . .

UPDATE: Reader Kevin Donovan emails:

What caught my eye was this:

“Excluded from these ‘core’ housework hours were tasks like gardening, home repairs, or washing the car.”

This just seems hilarious. When I was growing up my father maintained and washed the cars, mowed, fertilized, etc. the yard and did all sorts of carpentry, plumbing and electrical, etc. work around the house. Of course once you remove all the stereotypical male tasks from the definition of housework, women will do more of what’s left over, assuming some sort of sex-based division of labor.

Yeah. It’s like the whole thing is rigged or something.