Relying on women's stories about their experiences in marriage about doing housework, this work sought to gain insight into their life in the Dalmatian Hinterland. The emphasis is placed on the period of time in which the same women spent married. In doing so, efforts were made to show changes in marriage experiences in different generations and at different stages of the family's life cycle. An attempt was made to get a deeper insight into the daily lives of the same women. The key question raised in this paper concerned generational changes in women's experiences of doing housework, between different age cohorts. In order to obtain such data, qualitative methodology was used and nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with women who were born and continued to live in the Dalmatian Hinterland. The analysis of the data has come to the conclusion that life in the Dalmatian Hinterland still possesses certain patriarchal values within the family that are related to today's life of women. Such values are related to their perception of doing household and family chores and to relationships in marriage and family. Regardless of the age of the interlocutors, their phase of the family cycle, period of marriage or employment status, they are still the ones who do most of the household and family chores. When it comes to the involvement of their partners in these jobs, certain changes have been observed with regard to the generation to which they belong. In the younger generation, this change is more visible, where they emphasized greater help from their husbands, in contrast to the middle or older generation, who were selected for the research sample. Today, women have many more rights and opportunities than before, although the traditional role of women in the family is slowly changing.