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Peer reviewedBird, Gloria W.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1984
Used data from 166 couples to explore the relationship between family task sharing and sex-role orientation, role salience, income, and family type. The results suggested that for wives, income and family type seem to increase task sharing. For husbands, sex-role orientation, family type, and role salience influenced sharing behavior. (JAC)
Descriptors: Dual Career Family, Family Income, Family Structure, Home Management
Bird, Gloria W. – 1982
The rapid increase in the number of families with two wage-earners has contributed significantly to changes in family structure and function in the past three decades; a current belief holds that wives who share the income-earner role have a right to expect more assistance from their husbands with such family tasks as meal preparations, cleaning,…
Descriptors: Dual Career Family, Family Attitudes, Family Income, Family Structure
