There's good news and bad news for women on the housework front. A Michigan study tells us that we're doing less housework -- 17 hours/week in 2005, compared to 26 hours in 1976. Men's average has gone up from six hours in 1976 to 13 hours in 2005.

I noticed that, between the two, there was a net loss of two hours of housework per week. I don't know whether to attribute that to labor-saving devices or increased tolerance for a messy house.

The bad news? Going from single to married adds seven hours to a woman's weekly housework load. A man getting married, though, does an hour less of housework per week.

I can't figure out if that means the wife is busy cleaning up her husband's messes, or if living with another person simply increases the pressure to be neat.

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