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• • • • Why Unpaid Labor Is More Likely to Hurt Women’s Mental Health Than Men’s Women generally have long hours of housework and care duties on top of a job, while men have less time-sensitive chores like lawn mowing. • Give this article • • • 130 • One study found that, among household chores, dishwashing by men was most consequential for women’s happiness in the relationship.Credit...Maggie Steber for The New York Times By Claire Cain MillerSeptember 30, 2022 5:00 AM (EDT)Leer en español阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 In countries around the world, women do more unpaid labor — housework, child and elder care, and the mental load of managing a family — than men. New research suggests it takes a health toll on many of them. The more of this labor women do, the worse their mental health, found a meta-analysis of 19 studies covering 70,310 people globally, published this month in The Lancet Public Health. It analyzed the unpaid labor of people who also worked for pay. Other recent studies have similarly found that women’s household labor is associated with poor health, both physical and mental.Claire Cain Miller writes about gender, families and the future of work for The Upshot. She joined The Times in 2008 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues. @clairecm • FacebookA version of this article appears in print on Oct. 1, 2022, Section B, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Unpaid Labor Can Harm Mental Health, Especially for Women. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | SubscribeREAD 130 COMMENTS • Give this article • • • 130 • Managing Anxiety and Stress Stay balanced in the face of stress and anxiety with our collection of tools and advice. • First, bring calm and clarity into your life with these 10 tips. 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