Survey on Balancing Gender Roles At Home

Gender roles define how we are ‘expected’ to act, speak, dress, and conduct ourselves based on our assigned sex in the society. Girls and women are expected to be feminine, accommodating, and nurturing to their families. Meanwhile, men are perceived to be leading, decision-makers, and breadwinners that protect their families.

People have spent more time at home since Covid, which has increased the need for home duty, childcare, and housekeeping. The common belief is that the burden of extra housework appears to fall on the women at home or in society. This is in addition to women being expected to be responsible for the majority of childcare. This cannot be explained by the fact that they are less likely to work: even when working from home or at work, they often provide complete childcare.

This can have potential long-term negative effects on women’s salaries and employment prospects and the possibility of conflict of interests within households, mental and physical health, etc. However, times are changing more positively, and awareness about this is spreading. In many families, many men do more to assist in housework and childcare. This contributes mainly towards modifying gender stereotypes and, in the long run, leads to more gender equality in some homes.

Men now have a significantly increased amount of childcare and housework they perform compared to pre-Covid. Therefore, equal distribution of labor in homes can result in long-lasting gender roles and norms shifts. Thus, Real Research launched a survey to find out public opinions on the division of labor and the impact of gender roles at home.

Hence, hurry and answer the survey on balancing gender roles at home on the Real Research app from August 30, 2022. After that, you will receive 25 TNCs as a reward.