section concerns itself with gender differences in unpaid household work and finds that german women still do more than men section examines changes in attitudes to worklife balance and the roles of parents finally section considers how the gendered distribution of paid work may affect growth in coming years overall germany has made great strides in improving the gendered distribution of paid and unpaid labour there is still plenty of room for further progress however however as cohabitation becomes more common more and more children are growing up in households with two cohabiting parents