The advice I used to give couples as they were about to marry was to tell the bride that she should expect to do most of the cleaning and most of the cooking. But since it was always badly taken, I have stopped giving this advice although I think it still. On the cooking side I can see that I was wrong – although I did take my own advice on that one. With cooking, it is astonishing the number of fellows I know who cook almost all of the time, and this is even in households where the woman either works only part-time or not at all. Seems OK for them so who am I to say anything.

But this article is about cleaning house and this is what the study found:

In what appears to be a slap in the face for gender equality, the report found the divorce rate among couples who shared housework equally was around 50 per cent higher than among those where the woman did most of the work.

‘What we’ve seen is that sharing equal responsibility for work in the home doesn’t necessarily contribute to contentment,’ said Thomas Hansen, co-author of the study entitled ‘Equality in the Home’.
The lack of correlation between equality at home and quality of life was surprising, the researcher said.

‘One would think that break-ups would occur more often in families with less equality at home, but our statistics show the opposite,’ he said.

The figures clearly show that ‘the more a man does in the home, the higher the divorce rate,’ he went on.

It’s only a probability thing, of course, but on this one, if you want a stable marriage, I would go with the odds.