Table 2 The number and percentage of participants mentioning each key text regarding caregiving and domestic work in survey responses, for parents of children <18 years living at home.

Text	Total participants who were mothers (N = 442)		Total participants who were fathers (N = 614)
Text	N	Percent (%)	N	Percent (%)
Child	31	7.01	16	2.61
Childcare	34	7.69	25	4.07
Children	41	9.28	26	4.23
Son	3	0.68	1	0.16
Daughter	1	0.23	0	0.00
Baby	1	0.23	1	0.16
Kid	31	7.01	14	2.28
Elder	2	0.45	0	0.00
Daycare	15	3.39	8	1.30
School^a	43	9.73	25	4.07
Family	23	5.20	14	2.28
Parent^a	3	0.68	3	0.49
Mother	2	0.45	1	0.16
Father	0	0.00	2	0.33
Dad	0	0.00	0	0.00
Mom	2	0.45	9	0.00
Household	6	1.36	1	0.16
Chore	0	0.00	3	0.49
Domestic^b	3	0.68	2	0.33

^aStemmed words for each text were included in the search (e.g., “school”, “schooling”; “parent”, “parenting”).
^bOnly responses referring to “domestic work” were counted.

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