Corinne Low: ‘I’m more concerned about the female happiness gap than the gender wage gap’

In the book Winning the Bread and Baking It Too, the economist Corinne Low, along with Kyle Hancock and Jeanne Lafortune, analyzes how even when women are the primary breadwinners, they perform two to four times more housework than men. Their research explores how households could benefit if lower-income men adjusted their schedules to take on more domestic tasks and allowed higher-income women to work longer hours outside the home. Their analysis revealed that the time women spend on housework decreases after divorce, while men’s time increases. In other words, men are technically capable of performing basic tasks, but they simply choose not to.

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