When it comes to multi-tasking, many people are under the impression that woman are better than men.

But are women really better at doing two things at once, or are men just pretending they're worse to get out of certain jobs at home?

Newstalk reporter Henry McKean put together a report for the Moncrieff show on the subject.

New Science Magazine spokesperson Doctor Maria Boyle told him that it is hard to measure multitasking skills scientifically.

"Scientists have been looking at this for years, and as a scientific study it's really, really hard to do because you need to design an experiment that actually accurately shows who's better, men or women," she said.

"One of the things that they have done is they did a 2005 survey of 488 people, and 50% of people believe that there is a difference between men and women in terms of multi-tasking and 80% of those believe that women were better than men.

"A 2013 UK study did tests of multitasking and they showed that women were better than men and then a study last year from the US did a study where they gave men and women a virtual task and a physical task.

"What they found was men prioritised the virtual task while women prioritised both equally."

Main image: Mother multitasking. Image: Universal Images Group North America LLC / Alamy. 23 April 2013