It said that, while 84 per cent of the people interviewed said women and men can do the same chores at home, when it came down to specifics, things changed significantly.
According to the poll, 77 per cent of the Italian public prefer women to do the domestic cleaning, while 79 per cent said women are more suited to sorting clothes.
It added that only one in three people would trust a woman technician to fix a broken washing machine or a leaky pipe.
ANSA