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Direct linkde Ruijter, Esther; Treas, Judith K.; Cohen, Philip N. – Social Forces, 2005
Using data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey 1998, this study analyzes how much money different types of households spend for domestic services on "female" and "male" tasks. We test alternative hypotheses based on economic and sociological theories of gender differentiation. Contrary to arguments that marriage lowers the risk to one…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Females, Males, Expenditures
