husbands with higher bargaining power as proxied by the education gap between spouses spend less time on housework and more time on market work however the education gap does not influence womens time spent on household work while the bargaining power proxied by age gap between spouses does not affect the husbands household work time having young children increases the time spent in housework for both spouses but the wifes housework increases considerably more than her husbands minutes vs minutes