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Schiebinger, Londa; Gilmartin, Shannon K. – Academe, 2010
Scientists are likely not to be interested in thinking about housework. Housework is, however, related to the life of the mind. Scientists wear clean clothes to the lab, eat food procured and prepared by someone, and live in reasonably clean houses. This labor used to be done by stay-at-home wives. Now, housework is often done by wives and…
Descriptors: Women Scientists, College Faculty, Housework, Gender Differences
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Davis, Shannon N.; Greenstein, Theodore N.; Marks, Jennifer P. Gerteisen – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
Using data from 17,636 respondents in 28 nations, this research uses multilevel modeling to compare the reported division of household labor and factors affecting it for currently married and currently cohabiting couples. Cohabiting men report performing more household labor than do married men, and cohabiting women report performing less…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Labor, Housework, Gender Differences