The difference allows both of them to work at the time that suits them best, she said. “I am an early bird, so I am up and out at 6am to go to the gym, to come to the office. That’s when I get my best work done.”
Ms Evans said that despite stereotypes, her partner did pick up more of the housework because he was at home more, saying: “He is fantastic about just quietly getting on with stuff. I will think of something that needs doing during the day and make a note of it, and I will get home and it’s been done.”
“I genuinely do know how lucky I am,” she joked.
Her partner, Benet Slay, said that he does his non-executive director roles from his office at home.
“Weekdays it is pretty much as though we were both going out to work, except I am not going out to work, I am still in the house,” he said.
The couple come together in the evening, Mr Slay said, and enjoy a trip to Waitrose to get their dinner. But he added that if Ms Evans decided to start working from home, it would be a bit of “a shock to the system”.
He said: “I like being here on my own because when I feel like I need some social contact, I go and work somewhere else.”
Professor Heejung Chung, a sociologist at the University of Kent, said that the professions where remote work isn’t possible are dominated by women.
She said: “The three big occupations or sectors where remote work is still limited are healthcare, education, not all education but mainly primary and secondary, and then the third is retail. Those are very female-centric occupations, where remote working is not possible.
“Opportunity-wise, I think there are more jobs where it is traditionally more male-dominated where remote working is possible.”
Prof Chung added that even when men work from home, they generally do not take on more of the housework and childcare.
“Sometimes men will shirk away from the domestic responsibility just to ensure that their masculinity is not attacked,” she added.