Data from 359 married, full-time employed women tested extent to which allocation of tasks and allocation of household management predict perceptions of fairness and conflict. Task and management allocation contributed independently and differently to perceptions of fairness and conflict about housework allocation. Unfairness was predicted by both…

Critiques the few scholarly reports found on interventions to help dual-earner couples share domestic labor and to increase fathers' temporal involvement in child care. Presents model of forces both constraining and driving equitable participation in domestic labor. Recommends model as basis on which to design, implement, and evaluate family life…

Using data from the International Social Justice Project, we describe the division of household labor in married couple households using a sample of 13 nations (N= 10,153). We find significant differences in the division of household labor based upon respondents nations of residence. We find support for the time availability approach; households…

Examined determinants of fathers' participation in child care and household chores in an interview study of Caucasian, middle-class mothers and fathers (N=160). Indicated that maternal employment moderates the relationship between particular determinants and particular forms of parental involvement. (Author/ABB)