--- title: Study: Dads Who Do Household Chores Raise More Aspirational Daughters description: Daughters of men who help out at home tend to have broader career goals, a psychological study finds canonical: https://time.com/135157/dads-daughters-household-chores-career-ambitious/ author: Per Liljas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-29T08:12:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:22.767Z og:title: Study: Dads Who Do Household Chores Raise More Aspirational Daughters og:description: Daughters of men who help out at home tend to have broader career goals, a psychological study finds og:url: https://time.com/135157/dads-daughters-household-chores-career-ambitious/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b429c267a1535f3/6986912fe53abaad1d4d2c1d/father-daughter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Father and daughter sitting at table in kitchen og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Study: Dads Who Do Household Chores Raise More Aspirational Daughters twitter:description: Daughters of men who help out at home tend to have broader career goals, a psychological study finds twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b429c267a1535f3/6986912fe53abaad1d4d2c1d/father-daughter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dads Who Wash the Dishes Raise More Aspirational Daughters by [Per Liljas](https://time.com/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas May 29, 2014 8:12 AM UTC  Father and daughter sitting at table in kitchen Father and daughter sitting at table in kitchenGetty Images by [Per Liljas](https://time.com/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas May 29, 2014 8:12 AM UTC Dads who want their daughters to aim for prestigious professions should start by doing the dishes or loading the washing machine, a new study [suggests](http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/dads-who-do-household-chores-more-likely-to-have-ambitious-daughters-study-1.1842286). The study, to be published in the journal _Psychological Science_, found that fathers who perform household chores are more likely to bring up daughters who break out of the mold of traditionally female jobs and aspire to careers in business, legal and other professions, CTV reports. Alyssa Croft, lead author of the study, and a doctoral candidate at the University of British Columbia, said the study suggested “girls grow up with broader career goals in households where domestic duties are shared more equitably by parents.” The study involved a survey of 326 children, between 7 and 13 years old, and at least one of their parents. \[[_CTV_](http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/dads-who-do-household-chores-more-likely-to-have-ambitious-daughters-study-1.1842286)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/135157/dads-daughters-household-chores-career-ambitious/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/135157/dads-daughters-household-chores-career-ambitious/"},"headline":"Dads Who Wash the Dishes Raise More Aspirational Daughters","datePublished":"2014-05-29T08:12:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:22.767Z","description":"New research finds that daughters of men who help out at home tend to select from a broader range of career options than the daughters of families in which chores are not equitably shared","url":"https://time.com/135157/dads-daughters-household-chores-career-ambitious/","keywords":["Living","feminism","Psychology","gender","Family","study"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b429c267a1535f3/6986912fe53abaad1d4d2c1d/father-daughter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Per Liljas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/per-liljas/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b429c267a1535f3/6986912fe53abaad1d4d2c1d/father-daughter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Father and daughter sitting at table in kitchen","caption":"Father and daughter sitting at table in kitchen","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/135157/dads-daughters-household-chores-career-ambitious/","name":"Dads Who Wash the Dishes Raise More Aspirational Daughters"}}]}] ```