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- Title
Division of Domestic Work.
- Authors
Kroska, Amy
- Abstract
Using a sample of 101 heterosexual, coresidential couples, the author evaluates four house- work theories: gender ideology, relative resources, time availability, and doing gender. Unlike some tests of these theories, the author operationalizes gender ideology as an identity, and the author tests the models on the traditionally feminine chores as well as the traditionally masculine and gender-neutral chores. Using the new operationalization, the author finds that gender ideology is related to the allocation of feminine tasks but generally unrelated to the division of nonfeminine chores. Wives' and husbands' time availability also helps explain the division of feminine and, to a lesser extent, gender-neutral chores. Some socioeconomic resources are related to the allocation of each housework category although absolute and relative resources often have contrasting effects when controlling for both. Regardless of gender ideology, time availability, or resources, however, wives do a significantly greater share of their family's total and feminine housework, and husbands do a significantly greater share of their family's masculine chores.
- Subjects
HETEROSEXUALS; HOUSEWIVES; MARRIED women; HOUSEHUSBANDS; DOMESTIC relations; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; HOUSEHOLD employees
- Publication
Journal of Family Issues, 2004, Vol 25, Issue 7, p900
- ISSN
0192-513X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0192513x04267149