As for housework... women better off single

Even the Telegraph picked up on this recent study - though the findings were pretty predictable:

The report, published today by the Royal Economic Society, claims that single working women spend an average of 10 hours a week on housework while single men spend only seven hours.

As soon as women and men marry or live together, the amount of time devoted to housework increases to 15 hours a week for women and falls to only five hours a week for men. Differences like this — the so-called "chore wars" — mean that women derive less happiness from the relationship, suggests Helene Couprie, of Toulouse University, writing in the latest edition of the Economic Journal.