What would an all-male Christmas look like? Pretty sad.
Glance around the mall the next time you duck in for some holiday shopping and chances are you'll see women, not men, lugging around those gift-wrapped treasures.
A new survey finds that women are the ones making the lists and checking them twice - not their husbands or partners. In fact, not one of the 500 respondents on the website Nest.com said the man of the house took the lead on shopping.
Women do most of the buying in 73 per cent of homes, reports the Wall Street Journal, and only 27 per cent of couples split shopping duties evenly.
Isn't it a jolly old fellow who symbolizes Christmas giving? Is Mrs. Claus really the one doing all the work?
If she is, she's likely stressed. Somewhere along the line, gift-buying became just another item on the to-do list for females, alongside laundry, dishes and cooking. Almost half of women feel overextended in December, according to the survey.
"Some 42 per cent of women in the survey wish their partners would help more with holiday preparations – especially with presents for the in-laws. Some 62 per cent of women polled said those were among the most difficult and annoying presents to choose," the Journal reports.
So who does the list-making and the gift-shopping at your house? Is it just another chore?