A new study has claimed that the women's careers are perceived less important than that of men at home and usually the wife quits her job if the couple is working for extended hours.

Even as the workplace ethics have grown to become more equal, at home women's career takes a back street, according to the study conducted by the researcher Youngjoo Cha from the Cornell University.

The study called "Reinforcing Separate Spheres: The Effect of Spousal Overwork on Men's and Women's Employment in Dual-Earner Households" was published in the American Sociological Review in April.

The study found that women with husbands who work for more than 50 hours found themselves doing most of the house chores. The study involved 8,484 professional workers and 17,648 nonprofessionals fro the families with dial sources of income. The women whose husband worked more than 60 hours a week or more were more likely to quit their jobs.

The chances of quitting the job increases to 51% for professional women whose husbands work more than 60 hours per week. In case of professional mothers the odds of quitting the job increases to 112%.

The vice versa wasn't true as the odds of a man quitting his job because his wife worked more than 60 hours week did not increase significantly. The chances of men, parents or non parents did not increase due to the long working hours of his wife.

"As long work-hours introduce conflict between work and family into many dual-earner families, couples often resolve conflict in ways that prioritize husbands'' careers. Having a husband who works long hours significantly increases a woman's likelihood of quitting, while having a wife who works long hours does not affect a man's likelihood of quitting," said Cha.