Who’s doing the housework?

Join us for an interactive talk on who is doing the housework which will take place at the Heath bookshop in Kings Heath, Birmingham.

Housework is an inescapable part of everyday life. This interactive talk will showcase the latest research on how housework is divided in homes. It will provide an opportunity for you to reflect on your own divisions of housework and learn more about which tasks are more likely to be shared, and which are more resistant to change and why. We will discuss what it means to ‘mostly’ do a task, the different definitions of tasks themselves and the various reasons people give to rationalise their understanding of who does what and why.

There will be free coffee/tea and cake, and all attendees will receive a ‘household portrait’ activity kit to take home, which can be used to carry on conversations about housework divisions with those who share your domestic space.

Dr Emily Christopher, Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University

Any member of the public is welcome to attend. Any young people under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

This event will be of particular interest to anyone who shares or has shared a domestic space with others where housework is undertaken. This may include people living in a house share, couples/ families living together with or without children and/ or couples in retirement.

30/10/2025