This has been popping up on [NPR](http://m.npr.org/story/162381686?url=/2012/10/08/162381686/another-thing-singing-the-housework-blues) , and the [telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/9572187/Couples-who-share-the-housework-are-more-likely-to-divorce-study-finds.html)

>  Divorce rates are far higher among “modern” couples who share the housework than in those where the woman does the lion’s share of the chores, a Norwegian study has found.
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> In what appears to be a slap in the face for gender equality, **the report found the divorce rate among couples who shared housework equally was around 50 per cent higher than among those where the woman did most of the work.**
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> “What we’ve seen is that sharing equal responsibility for work in the home doesn’t necessarily contribute to contentment,” said Thomas Hansen, co-author of the study entitled “Equality in the Home”. “One would think that break-ups would occur more often in families with less equality at home, but our statistics show the opposite,” he said. The figures clearly show that “**the more a man does in the home, the higher the divorce rate**,” he went on. 

**Did the study find that the divorce rate was 50% higher in marriages where the housework was shared?**