It's an interesting read at least as much as overviewing the abstract in the summary but I'm not so much sure that it's "doing gender" as gender differences pro

It's an interesting read at least as much as overviewing the abstract in the summary but I'm not so much sure that it's "doing gender" as gender differences prompt different desires. It's well known across psychology that generally men are more interested in things and women are more interested in people. So this divide of the cognitive mental load shouldn't be surprising but what would be interesting is more the why it's that way. I have very little interest in social interactions and organizing those types of things. Many of the household cognitive mental load things they cite I also have very little interest planning for those as they seem to be things that don't really require my planning. My wife on the other hand she loved social interactions and for all of those cognitive mental load things she enjoyed planning those things or at least it seemed like she enjoyed it. Any given day if I would grab her butt there would be a piece of paper in her pocket with a list of all of those things. We're all of them required to be done, certainly not, were they required to be as her list dictated, absolutely not but for her she had to have it this way. So are women rating so much higher on the cognitive mental load because they have to or because they want to and it becomes a different way in which you approached handling these things. One of those examples that almost any married man can relate to is when your wife wants you to do something she will nag you until it gets done. Then she'll complain my husband doesn't do things when I ask. The issue comes about because it's not that your husband won't take out the garbage for example and he'll just leave it pile up to the ceiling and it will never get taken out it's that the woman wants it done on her timetable and how she specifies. So that will definitely increase this cognitive mental load because they're attempting to micromanage the household instead of letting tasks get done in a more natural and fluid way. Without accounting for that kind of difference in attitude and task handling this study isn't providing anything useful beyond confirmation of what every married man already knows.