Are Full-Time-Working Mothers So Different From Stay-at-Homes?

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Stay-at-home mothers and working mothers are often discussed as if they were different species. And polls sometimes find the two cohorts regard each other in that light. When they’re at home, though, are their lives so different? Focusing on married mothers, a new report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics offers some clues as it crunches American Time Use Survey data for 2003-06.

Mothers who work full time and have at least one kid under age 6 spend barely half as much time on housework as their nonworking counterparts, .84

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