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New suggests that husbands do not do their share of work around the . A study from the Ohio State University says that men who do an share of housework are a rare . Researchers looked at the lifestyles of 182 working who became first-time parents. Both partners worked the same amount of hours in full-time jobs. The research team found that men did less housework after the baby was born, even though both mothers and fathers worked the same of hours outside the home. During the few weeks of parenthood, fathers did an of five hours a week less housework, although they spent this time helping to look after the baby.

It is a story for mothers. Becoming a parent added about 21 hours per week to the of work she did, even with her full-time . Most of their extra work was spent looking after her baby. The researchers explained why new fathers did not keep up with the work after a child was born. They said that men were simply that the mother was doing so much more work. Another is that after a baby is born, fathers tend to follow what happened in their own homes when they were . They automatically accept and follow the 'traditional' of the mother looking after the baby and the father working, even though the mother is also working the same number of in her job.

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