interestingly more educated women spend less time on household work and more on labour market work this confirms the findings of other studies on the effect of womens education in female labour force participation and suggests that education can lead to a change in womens attitudes towards their own role in the household and in the workplace at the same time die opportunity cost of not working in terms of foregone earnings is higher which provides an economic incentive to increase their time on labour market work the level of education does not significantly impact husbands time spent on housework but increased education decreases their time spent on market work