In an article by Melissa Kossler Dutton excerpted by The Situationist in staff post “The Situation of Messiness“:

mothers devote an average of four more hours a week to tending their children and 14 more hours of paid work than they did 40 years ago, according to a report last year from the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-profit group based at the University of Illinois-Chicago. They do 14 fewer hours of housework a week, the study said.

Does this mean that we spend an average of four hours less on our own needs compared to 40 years ago?