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  Men and women all over the world have arguments about doing the housework, and it′s usually the women who lose. 

  However, a recent study by researchers at Oxford University shows that the situation is slowly improving. The researchers asked men and women aged between 20 and 59 to keep a diary of how much time they spent on housework each day. Then the researchers collected the diaries and analyzed them.

  These showed that women in the UK today spend about four hours and 40 minutes each day doing housework. Men, on the other hand, spend two hours and 28 minutes doing the same things. Although women still spend more time doing domestic jobs, the figures show that the situation has improved. In the 1960s, women spent six hours a day on housework and men only 90 minutes.

  Researchers say that women are still doing most of the housework because people still divide domestic jobs into two areas. They see cooking, cleaning, and looking after children as ′women′s work′, and general repairs, car maintenance, and work outside the home as ′men′s work′.

  So, in general, the results of the study bring good news for women. The difference between the amount of time men and women spend on housework is getting smaller every year. This means that the time will come when both sexes share domestic chores equally. However, women will have to be extremely patient, because the change won′t be complete for another four decades!

Read the text. Mark the sentences True or False.

1. Men and women don′t always agree about housework.

2. Adults and teenagers took part in the study.

3. The participants had to write down the time they spent on housework.

4. The time people spend doing housework has changed since the 1960s.

5. Today, women do more housework than they did in the 1960s.

6. In general, people think it′s normal for women to look after the family car.

7. Forty years from now, men and women will share the housework.