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- Title
Work Hard, Play Hard?: A Comparison of Male and Female Lawyers' Time in Paid and Unpaid Work and Participation in Leisure Activities.
- Authors
WALLACE, JEAN E.; YOUNG, MARISA C.
- Abstract
There has been a considerable amount of research that documents how women and men spend their time in different work and home tasks. We examine how much time professional women and men spend in paid and unpaid work and how this relates to their participation in different leisure activities. We also explore whether time in paid and unpaid work has gender-specific effects on leisure participation. In examining these issues, we rely on data from lawyers working in different legal settings. Our results show that, as hypothesized, men report more time in paid work and leisure whereas women devote more time to housework and childcare. An unexpected finding is that the time men spend in housework or childcare is either unrelated or positively related to their leisure participation. These results suggest that men's greater overall opportunities for leisure compared with women's appear to stem from the unanticipated relationships between men's involvement in housework...
- Subjects
RECREATION for men; RECREATION for women; LABOR; LABOR -- Social aspects; HOUSEKEEPING -- Social aspects; HOME economics; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Canadian Review of Sociology, 2010, Vol 47, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
1755-6171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1755-618X.2010.01221.x