UK Female MNers - please take a survey about chores and tasks at home - £50 to be won! NOW CLOSED

[AnnMumsnet]

Here at MNHQ we'd love to know who does what in your household.

If you are a UK Mumsnet user who is female AND who has at least one child at home AND who has a partner who lives in the same house as them please take a few minutes to complete this survey.

As a thank you, all respondents (who leave their details at the end) will be entered into a prize draw for a £50 voucher for the store of their choice.

Here's the link again www.surveymonkey.com/s/SVWHGD6

Thanks and good luck


MNHQ

Agreeing with the later posters - to add that if the survey is repeated, the point about working patterns should take account of how many days the two partners work outside of the. e.g. I work from home part of the week, that's another reason admin stuff falls on me.

Of course, this isn't a criticism of a generally good survey (I wouldn't have bothered to answer if it weren't ); I imagine this might make the analysis too complicated, just a plea to not interpret the data without taking these possibilities into account.

Oh, and looking back at my survey answers it was very obvious that the presence of a cleaner is the most important factor in our domestic (almost) sanity!

Well this definitely proved our cleaner is worth their weight in gold. DH and I are reasonably equal although I am the organiser of pretty much everything (although he has taken the eldest two to London for the weekend and organised it all himself). I picked well .

Done survey. We do everything equal except I have full control of money/admin as hes dyslexic and dh does all play dates and ferrying around.

This will change soon as Im taking a 2 week maternity and dh is off, and Im not planning on doing much domestic stuff but will help with the children.

I also live in1950,s, except I have hold downs job as well!

done

Done

Done. Not too 50's like! Lots of organising and cooking tho!

This is aimed at those with small children. Mine are teenagers and some of the chores are done by them.

Done.
Please can I win a £50 voucher for somewhere as this survey has made me tired and depressed & I need to be cheered up.
Thankyou.
Now off to clean the bathroom..... "its a hard knock life, for me....." !

I was confused by the question about ironing too blueberry. We do share it equally though as half of zero is zero!

I was confused about this thing called daily cleaning.

"I was confused about this thing called daily cleaning." Yup. Me too.

Heh, yes, there was quite a high assumption of cleanliness!

Done! and flippin' nora I'm going to have to moan less at DH cos he does more than I give him credit for. Not as much as me, but as others have said doesn't take into account the employment hours, older kids, etc

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DH does loads more than me

Eek - what an eye opener.

But the strange thing is that I, in comon with many other women I guess, have been brainwashed into thinking that I have to be "superwoman" and do everything at home, including being the higher earner, so I don't feel a huge pressure to change the status quo.

I am going to show that list to my husband though, and ask him if he will do the job of opening the wine at weekends.

I agree that it needs to ask about work commitments and flexibility, and also to take into account that the children get asked to help with household chores (increasingly as they get older).

The daily and weekly cleaning bit confused me. Why would you need to do a weekly big clean if you do a daily clean? And how much cleaning is a daily clean?

Blimey, I've just completed the survey and it makes my DH and I look like we are living in the dark ages. DH does bugger all at home because he works so flipping hard at work . I have a cleaner 10 hours a week and a gardener so it would be strange for him to come home and do chores. I do lots of gardening and DIY but only because I enjoy it.

I don't think the survey will reflect my type of situation very well.

I can imagine the results of the survey will come up with 'headlines' about how useless partners are at helping out.

Thanks for all the responses.
Am pleased to say - rather appropriately nowahousewife wins the £50 voucher! Well done

Interesting if not particularly surprising results. Any chance someone from MN can publish the original questionnaire so we can compare our personal experience?

R