Australian women are doing 50% more housework than men. It’s creating ‘volcanic levels of resentment’

In heterosexual couples with children under 15, men did one-third less housework and about half the childcare of their female partners. Photograph: grinvalds/Getty Images/iStockphoto

This International Women’s Day, Meg’s* life will feel no less chaotic than it does on any other day.

Like her husband, the 43-year-old from Sydney works five days a week – but she also has a second job, freelancing in the evenings. They have three young children, a mortgage and no family in Australia.