Interviewer gender skews housework data

A Germany study finds women report substantially more time on housework when interviewed by another woman, while men’s reports are unchanged. This suggests interviewer characteristics (not just question wording) can produce systematic gendered reporting differences that distort estimates of domestic labor and gender gaps. — If common, this bias means many cross‑national or policy analyses of gendered time use could be misleading, affecting debates about inequality, labor policy, and care work.