House & Home - Family Chore Trends Index

The Gender Equity Policy Institute just found that mothers spend twice as much as fathers on caregiving and housework, and much more time than men overall. This gender imbalance is created when there’s no uniform and fair way to organize chores between all family members. 

To compile the Family Chore Trends Index, the family organization experts at S’moresUp —an app helping parents right the imbalance of household responsibilities — looked at the chore habits of American users. 

S’moresUp’s Chore Trends Index  

(data from 300K users)

>> AMERICA’S TOP 10 FAVORITE CHORES 

(based on user data and chores assigned to the entire family)

#1: Clean the kitchen

#2: Take out the trash

#3: Do laundry

#4: Vacuum living room

#5: Wash dishes

#6: Feed pets

#7: Sweep floors

#8: Mop floors

#9: Fold clothes

#10: Organize Toys

AMERICA’S 10 MOST HATED CHORES 

(based on user data and the rarest chores assigned or done by the entire family) 

#1: Organize storage room

 #2: Sweep garage floor

 #3: Dust ceiling fans

 #4: Repair broken furniture

 #5: Repair lightbulbs 

#6: Clean windowsills

 #7: Water outdoor plants

 #8: Mop basement floors

 #9: Clean storage closet

 #10: Organize tool shed

WOMEN MORE LIKELY TO USE FAMILY MANAGEMENT TOOLS 

70% of the app’s main users are mothers, while 30% are fathers, showing there’s even a gender gap in how genders use chore apps. 

FAMILIES USE QUIRKINESS TO MOTIVATE KIDS 

Some families add fun to chores like “walk slinky up and down steps,” “organize joke of the day,” and things like “Toy Madness Cleanup” and “Crazy Fun Race Organizer” to make cleanup more fun. More quirky chores include “dust antique doll collection” “polish silverware before parties” “organize garage toy race track” and “sweep roof,”

Information courtesy of smoresup.com, an app made by a mom that's helping parents split household responsibilities fairly.