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- Title
Doing the Daily Grind: The Effects of Domestic Labor on Professional, Managerial, and Technical Workers' Earnings.
- Authors
Powers, Rebecca S.
- Abstract
Using two waves of data from the National Survey of Families and Households, I examined how domestic labor tasks including daily grind tasks, female-type and male-type tasks affected the earnings of workers in professional, managerial, and technical occupations in the short and long term. The results show that performing daily grind tasks reduces the earnings of college-educated workers in high prestige occupations immediately and over time. Further, domestic labor explained an additional 19 percent of the gap between the earnings of women and men in professional, managerial, and technical occupations. These results suggest that despite having jobs that offer higher pay and more autonomy, the time spent doing the daily grind, negatively affects earnings, especially for women in professional, managerial, and technical occupations.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LABOR; WAGES; HOUSEHOLDS; HOUSEHOLD surveys
- Publication
Gender Issues, 2003, Vol 21, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1098-092X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12147-003-0019-7