Japanese’s point of view on marriage ~ Housework & Family Finance Series ~ Is your country a married developed country?

What is the point of view of a Japanese regarding married life? What kind of ideals life are imagined by both men and women, especially for housework and family finance? Today, we are going to share with you about the point of view of Japanese regarding the above matter based on "Survey to Unmarried couple regarding the Ideal Married Life 2017"*

*Survey to Unmarried couple regarding the Ideal Married Life 2017. Survey was conducted by "Zojirushi Co., Ltd." On February 2017 targeted to total of 800 candidates, 200 people for each 20’s and 30’s, for both men and women. 

For both men and women, their concept is the same that "daily housework should be done and shared by both husband and wife!"

In response to the question "After marriage, do you think it is a must to share daily housework with your partner?", 88% of the respondents answered, "Yes, I think it shall be." Results from Men are 89.8%, which is slightly higher than female, which is 86.3%. There are still people who have the idea that "housework should be all done by women".

However, most of the young generation in 20’s and 30’s seems to have the thinking of "housework should be shared among wife and husband".

The housework which they would like to request to men are "garbage throwing", while the housework they would like to request to women is "dinner preparation"

In response to the question of "What kind of housework will you request your partner to handle after marriage?", the housework that the women want to ask men are ranked as 1st:"garbage throwing", 2nd: "bathroom cleaning", 3rd: place "dishwashing" and “Cleaning of bedroom". On the other hands, housework that men want to request women to handle are ranked as 1st: "dinner preparation", 2nd: "breakfast preparation", 3rd: "clothes washing". It can be concluded that men are always requested to do "heavy housework" while women are requested to handle "meal preparation".

Ideal for living expenses is "Sharing of expenses"

About the living expenses such as food and utilities expenses, the question of “Do you want to share the expenses for the living expenses with your partner?” is questioned to the candidates. 30.6% of them answered "Yes, I would like to.", while 59.4% answered "I would like to do so if the situation allows" in response to the question. This is due to the reason that "I want to save some money for my hobbies, etc.", "I want to save money for individuals apart from couple shared savings", "I want to use it freely by myself other than living expenses". It seems that even after getting married, many of them think that they want to manage their money separately and independently instead of managing in a same account.