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Father’s Day is a time when children give thanks for the incredible men in their lives, but fathers can give something even more important to their daughters, specifically, every day of the year.

All dads have to do is a little more housework — and they’ll give their daughters’ career prospects a boost, a new study suggests.

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Research from the University of British Columbia’s Department of Psychology has found that when fathers share a more equal amount of domestic duties with their spouses/partners, their daughters tend to pursue less traditional careers. Alyssa Croft, a PhD candidate at UBC, was the lead author on the study, which examined the way parents’ actions can affect their children’s professional aspirations later on. The study is set to appear in the journal Psychological Science.

“Giving this potentially cautionary tale to parents, that although we’re careful not to infer causation from these patterns, our data suggests that kids might be picking up their stereotypes about gender and themselves not only from what parents say, but from what they’re doing around the house,” Croft says.