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- Title
Market Earnings and Household Work: New Tests of Gender Performance Theory.
- Authors
Schneider, Daniel
- Abstract
I examine the contested finding that men and women engage in gender performance through housework. Prior scholarship has found a curvilinear association between earnings share and housework that has been interpreted as evidence of gender performance. I reexamine these findings by conducting the first such analysis to use high-quality time diary data for a U.S. sample in the contemporary period. Drawing on data on 11,868 married women and 10,770 married men in the American Time Use Survey (2003 – 2007), I find no evidence that married men ‘‘do gender’’ through housework. I do, however, find strong evidence of gender performance among women as evidenced by a curvilinear association between earnings share and women’s housework time.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOUSEKEEPING -- Social aspects; GENDER; MARRIED people; GENDER studies; MARRIED men; EMPLOYMENT of married women; HOME economics
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 2011, Vol 73, Issue 4, p845
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00851.x