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- Title
Husbands' Participation in Domestic Labor: Interactive Effects of Wives' and Husbands' Gender Ideologies.
- Authors
Greenstein, Theodore N.
- Abstract
The article studies the interactive effects of wives and husbands gender ideologies on participation of husbands in domestic labor. The author hypothesized that a husband's gender ideology is not related to the division of household labor for men married to traditional wives, but that it is for men with egalitarian wives. The analysis presented in this study confirms this hypothesis. There are statistically significant interactions between wives and husbands gender ideologies in terms of their effects on the overall division of household labor and on the division of traditionally female tasks such as cooking and laundry. Husbands' contributions to domestic labor are related to the husband's gender ideology for men married to egalitarian women. Husbands' contributions decrease as gender ideology becomes more traditional. The study concludes that husbands do relatively little domestic labor unless both they and their wives are relatively egalitarian in their beliefs about gender and marital roles.
- Subjects
HOME economics; SPOUSES' legal relationship; IDEOLOGY; DOMESTIC relations; HOUSEKEEPING; HOUSEHUSBANDS; HOUSEWIVES
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 1996, Vol 58, Issue 3, p585
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/353719