A survey studying relationship inequality

Please take this survey if you are in a long-term relationship or marriage in which household labor is currently unequal. If you are not currently in a relationship, please take this survey with your MOST RECENT relationship in mind. If inequality in your relationship has changed with time, please answer questions with the current state of your relationship in mind. If a question does not apply or is unclear to you, please leave it blank. 
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* 1. What is your gender? 

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* 2. What is the gender of your partner? 

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* 3. Household labor is all the work necessary to keep the household running. It includes cooking, cleaning, managing and performing home repairs, buying presents, planning and overseeing the holidays, planning parties, etc. This includes mental/emotional labor. What percentage of household labor do you do, on average, in a given week?

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* 4. Household labor is all the work necessary to keep the household running. It includes cooking, cleaning, managing and performing home repairs, buying presents, planning and overseeing the holidays, planning parties, etc. This includes mental/emotional labor. What percentage of household labor does your partner do on average, in a given week?

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* 5. How many hours, on average, per week do you spend on paid work? Include all paid work, including freelancing, full or part-time work, and income from a hobby?

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* 6. How many hours, on average, per week does your partner spend on paid work? Include all paid work, including freelancing, full or part-time work, and income from a hobby.

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* 7. Parenting is all tasks related to the care of children. This includes time spent with children, parent-teacher conferences, planning playdates, scheduling, driving children, supervising children, researching child development, etc. What percentage of parenting tasks, on average, do you do per week?

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* 8.  What percentage of parenting tasks, on average, does your partner do per week?

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* 9. Are you neurodivergent (for example, PTSD, depression, anxiety, autism, ADHD)? 

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* 10. Is your partner neurodivergent? 

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* 11. Have you discussed the balance of household and parenting labor with your partner during the past year? 

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* 12. How many times during the past year do you estimate have you discussed the balance of household and parenting labor with your partner?

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* 13. Does your partner agree that the balance of household labor is unequal? 

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* 14. Please tell me what happens when you discuss the balance of household labor with your partner.

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* 15. What excuses does your partner make for the unequal balance of household labor?

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* 16. Has your partner ever done any of the following when you have brought up the imbalance of household labor? 

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* 17. Does your partner identify as a feminist, or otherwise espouse a commitment to equality? 

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* 18. When you and your partner first moved in together, what portion of household labor would you estimate you did?

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* 19. Prior to getting married or living together, did you and your partner discuss the division of household labor? 

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* 20. If you knew then what you know now, would you still marry or commit long-term to your partner?

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* 21. Does your partner create additional household labor for you, such as by making messes or creating problems for you to solve? 

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* 22. If your partner creates additional household labor for you, how much additional labor per week, in hours, do you estimate they create, on average?

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* 23. Have you lost out on opportunities, such as the chance to pursue a promotion, start a podcast, pursue creative opportunities, etc. because you have to do to much household labor? 

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* 24. If you have lost out on opportunities because of household labor inequality, please tell me about those opportunities. Otherwise, please skip this question.

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* 25. Do you cover for your partner's lack of household support? For example, do other people think things are more equal than they are, or do you buy presents for his family? 

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* 26. What percentage of the household income do you earn? 

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* 27. What percentage of the household income does your partner earn?

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* 28. On a scale of 1-10, where 10 is ecstatically happy, 5 is neither happy nor unhappy, and 0 is as unhappy as you can possibly imagine, how happy would you say you are in your relationship? 

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* 29. Have you considered divorcing your partner? 

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* 30. If you did not have to worry about finances, child custody, or ongoing post-separation abuse, would you divorce your partner? 

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* 31. What factors do you feel contribute most to the inequality in household labor in your home?

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* 32. Is there anything else you would like to share about household inequality, such as special circumstances? 

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* 33. How has household inequality changed with time? Please think of the beginning of your relationship through now. 

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