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Input: When it comes to dividing the labor at home fairly, straight couples may have a lot to learn from gay couples. 
  
 A new study finds that same-sex couples tend to communicate better, share chore duties more fairly and assign tasks based on personal preference -- rather than gender, income, hours worked or power position in the relationship. 
  
 Straight couples, meanwhile, tend to talk less and fall into to traditional gender roles, what one family describes as “pink chores” and “blue chores.” 
  
 In dual-income straight couples, women and those who earn less money or work fewer hours tend to take primary responsibility for stereotypically female -- and more labor-intensive -- chores such as child care, grocery shopping, washing dishes, cooking and laundry, according to a survey of 225 gay and straight dual-income couples being released Thursday by PriceWaterHouseCoopers and the Families and Work Institute. 
  
 The survey, while a relatively small sample, has interesting findings. 
  
 Men, higher earners and those who work longer hours – which researchers say can signify a position of power -- in straight couples tend to do the yard work and outdoor, auto and more traditionally male chores that tend to be less time-consuming. 
  
 Yet in same-sex couples, income and work hours didn’t have the same affect. And, perhaps most important, same-sex couples were much more likely to share equally the time-consuming work of routine child care – 74 percent of gay couples versus 38 percent of straight couples. And gay couples were more likely to equally share the unpredictable work of caring for a sick child – 62 percent versus 32 percent for straight couples. 
  
 Why is that important? In straight couples, women are still often considered the primary, or default, parent, responsible not only for organizing, overseeing and caring for children but for also doing many of household chores. Time diary data shows that women, even when they work full-time, tend to spend about twice as much time doing housework and caring for children. 
  
 “There’s been a lot of calls for more sharing of child care responsibilities, so it isn’t only a woman’s problem and she isn’t the only one dealing with the fallout at work. But we see more sharing in same-sex couples,” said Ken Matos, FWI senior director of research and author of the study. “Taking on primary child care responsibility impacts one’s work time. It creates so many unscheduled interruptions, so that’s an important thing to be shared.” 
  
 The survey also found that men in same-sex relationships were more satisfied with the division of labor than were women in straight relationships. The reason? Same-sex couples talked about it more. 
  
 Men in gay partnerships were much more likely to say they had discussed how to divide the labor when they first moved in together. Women in straight partnerships were much more likely to say they wanted to, but didn’t. 
  
 “The people who said they bit their tongue had a lower satisfaction with division of household responsibilities,” Matos said. “So satisfaction may not be so much about what you do, but whether or not you felt you had a voice. Did you say what you wanted? Or did you let it evolve and feel like you couldn’t pull yourself out of the situation once it settled and got stuck?” 
  
 In the survey, 20 percent of women in straight couples said they hadn’t spoken up about how to divide the labor fairly, but wish they had. In same-sex couples, 15 percent of the women had. 
  
 “Perhaps because they can’t default to gender, people in same-sex couples are in more of a position to have these conversations,” Matos said. “That’s probably the biggest takeaway of the survey: how important it is to talk and say what you want, rather than stay silent, not wanting to start a fight, making assumptions, and then letting things fester.” 
  
 Writer and lecturer Andrew Solomon said he and his husband are constantly talking about how to make all the pieces of their lives fit together. “I feel like we’re constantly inventing it,” he said. “We talk about it all the time. It’s a constantly evolving process.” 
  
 Solomon is the primary breadwinner and his spouse has taken on the bulk of caring for their six-year-old son. Everything else, Solomon said, they’ve divided chores based on what they’re good at. Solomon is organized, so he arranges school and summer camp activities. His husband cooks. They share school drop off and they shift duties as the demands of their schedules change. 
  
 “People often make assumptions: We get asked, since I'm the one who works more, am I more the ‘Dad,’ and is John really the ‘Mom?’I feel like we have a paucity of vocabulary to describe these roles,” Solomon said. “If there’s one thing same sex parents could teach is that it’s not that one of us is ‘really’ the mom and one is ‘really the Dad. Those are irrelevant concepts. We’re just both in this together.” 
  
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 Women may be leaning in and climbing corporate ladders, but on the homefront, couples often still divide chores like it's 1965. 
  
 Well, some couples, anyway. 
  
 It turns out that same-sex couples are much less likely to use traditional standards for allocating chores. A newly released survey by the Families and Work Institute of 225 dual-earner couples found that, for the most part, same-sex couples used "a lot of mixing and matching" to divvy up household duties, said Kenneth Matos, the institute's senior director of research. 
  
 While that doesn't mean they share all responsibilities, there are lessons straight couples might learn from the process many same-sex couples use to divvy up household tasks. 
  
 Overall, the study found that same-sex couples tend to share more duties and assign various chores based on personal preference, while straight couples tend to slip back into traditional gender roles, with women, lower earners, and those with fewer work hours, taking primary responsibility for stereotypical female chores. 
  
 While the survey, which included 103 same-sex couples and 122 straight couples, found that same-sex couples did not have an "overabundance" of shared responsibilities, it found a greater proportion of same-sex couples do share the laundry, household repair and child care responsibilities than dual-income straight couples do. 
  
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 In fact, same-sex couples were much more likely to share child care duties, the study found. About 74 percent of the same-sex couples shared routine child care and 62 percent shared sick child care, versus 38 percent of straight couples sharing routine child care and just 32 percent sharing the care of sick children. 
  
 Part of the difference may stem from the fact that same-sex couples have already broken out of the normative family structure, said Matos.Male-female couples "sort of have a template," he said. "There is a lot of going ... really fast into the traditional gender roles and then saying, 'Wait a second, this isn't really where I want to be.' " Same-sex couples, in contrast, have already broken a mold, so they can have "a richness of imagination" when they divide domestic chores. 
  
 But does sharing housework and child care more equally automatically make couples happier? Not necessarily, the study found. What really tamped down the chore wars was communication. 
  
 When couples discussed what each one wants in terms of labor division, their overall happiness went up markedly, and when they did not, they were much more likely to be dissatisfied with their domestic workload. 
  
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 "I probably went in with the bias that sharing is going to be better," said Jennifer Allyn, diversity strategy leader at PwC, which sponsored the study. "It was insightful to see that the 50-50 model doesn't have to be where you get to. It's just that you have to talk about it and be purposeful and intentional about it." 
  
 Both men and women sometimes suffer their chores in silence, and the survey found no meaningful difference in the share of same-sex and different-sex couples who discussed how to divide housework when they first moved in together. But women in both same-sex and straight couples are much more likely to feel they wanted to discuss who did what but did not have the opportunity. 
  
 Some 20 percent of women in different-sex couples and 15 percent of women in same-sex couples felt they didn't get to speak their piece about the division of labor, compared with 11 percent of men in either a same-sex or different-sex couple. 
  
 Same-sex couples still represent a small portion of all couples natiowide. There are an estimated 390,000 married same-sex couples in the country, according to the latest Gallup survey data, out of a total of more than 56 million married couples living in the U.S. 
  
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 But the increasing visibility of same-sex couples, and the choices they make when it comes to chores, could point more straight couples toward new ways of divvying up household responsibilities, Allyn said. 
  
 "There is a lot of freedom to [split] it lots of different ways, and there are lots of chores," she said. "What feels fair in the context of our relationship? I think that's going to be more individual." 
  
 PwC recently took a step toward making those choices possible for its employees by revising its leave policies when employees have babies or adopt. Instead of giving mothers more time than fathers, it renamed the benefit "parental leave" and now gives all parents the right to the same amount of paid time off. 
  
 As to who changes the diapers of those new babies, PwC is mum. That, after all, has to be talked through. |||||
Output:
In traditional, opposite-sex relationships, most women still do the vast majority of chores—regardless of how many hours they work or how much money they make. But for same-sex couples, where there isn't the traditional gender-based division of labor to fall back on, the chores are more often shared and divvied up according to personal preference. So finds a survey of 103 same-sex couples and 122 straight couples put out this week by the Families and Work Institute; all were dual-earner couples. Though NBC News reports same-sex couples didn't share an "overabundance" of chores, they did out-share their straight counterparts in a number of areas: In same-sex couples, 74% share child care, 62% share sick child care, 44% share laundry, and 33% share household repair. The corresponding figures for straight couples are 38%, 32%, 31%, and 15%. So does that increased sharing lead to increased happiness regarding chores? Perhaps surprisingly, not hugely. "I probably went in with the bias that sharing is going to be better," acknowledges the diversity strategy leader for study-sponsor PwC. But on a scale where 5 is most satisfied, when it comes to the division of household responsibilities, gay men scored 4.18 and lesbians scored 3.99; straight men scored 4.02 and straight women 3.82. There was a happiness trigger, though: communication. Per the study, "When couples discussed what each one wants in terms of labor division, their overall happiness went up markedly, and when they did not, they were much more likely to be dissatisfied with their domestic workload." Study author Ken Matos highlights the finding. "That's probably the biggest takeaway of the survey," he tells the Washington Post. "How important it is to talk and say what you want. ... The people who said they bit their tongue had a lower satisfaction with division of household responsibilities." (Should women simply let things get dirty?)