A new study found that when it comes to raising teenagers, girls spend more time on homework and household chores than boys.
The Pew Research Center combed through data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics featuring 24-hour time diaries of teenagers ages 15 to 17 between 2014 to 2017.
Teens from 2,190 were asked to log the time they spent on daily activities, including errands, housework, eating, sleeping, grooming, education and leisure.
Researchers found that females spent 38 minutes of housework daily, higher than boys, who spent about 24 minutes cleaning around the house.
“It’s true across the life course that women typically do more housework than men,” Gretchen Livingston, a researcher at Pew Research Center, told Insider. “I think what was striking is that this gender gap is apparent as young as ages 15 – 17, that was very interesting to me.”
And girls were also more diligent than boys when it came to their education. The research found that girls spend one hour and 11 minutes daily on homework, while boys only took out 50 minutes of their day to study.
“A half hour may not sound like much, but that’s a half hour a day so that does add up,” Livingston said.
Meanwhile a September 2018 study from Griffith University found that girls have been outperforming their male peers for the past 27 years when it comes to reading.
“The common thinking is that boys and girls in grade school start with the same cognitive ability, but this research suggests otherwise,” David Reilly, a researcher at Griffith University and co-author of the study, wrote in a press release. “Our research found that girls generally exhibit better reading and writing ability than boys as early as the fourth grade.”