A conceptual framework was used to describe the policymaking process as a component of management in the home and family setting. An inventory of family policies was tested for conceptual validity. Results showed that respondents varied considerably as to the extent of established policies represented by the inventory. (Author)

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)

Studied marital dynamics of 106 faculty women at Northwestern University, focusing on a division of housework and childcare. Questionnaire responses indicated a traditional pattern. Suggests today's professional women are going through a role expansion rather than a role redefinition. (Author/RC)

Analyzes the marital role division between couples, in the Philadelphia area, concentrating on the division of household tasks, child care, and paid employment. Data support a marital power model with husband's income negatively related and wife's education positively related to shared roles. Blacks are more likely to share roles. (Author)

This study, based on a survey of Milwaukee area adults, assigns the occupation of housewife a NORC prestige score of 70, one in the middle prestige range. Men and older raters evaluate it higher; working women and younger raters evaluate it lower. Housewife's social standing varies according to husband's occupation. (Author)

Uses national survey data to estimate three dimensions of the family work day: (1) total daily work time; (2) time at least one spouse is at work; and (3) time only one spouse is at work. Indicates how the presence of children affects arrangements of the family work day. (JAC)

The time spent on household labor, and the traditionality and role specialization in the division of such labor are compared using matched samples of married and co-habiting college men and women. Women of both groups are still taking most of the responsibility for the household tasks. (Author)

Analyzed the actual and preferred division of family tasks in a group of Dutch families with preschool children (N=237). Results showed a noticeable trend toward egalitarianism, particularly in the higher socioeconomic strata; however, this egalitarianism appeared not so much a fact as an ideal to be pursued. (LLL)

Investigates whether women in dual-earner families maintain full responsibility for domestic tasks. Based on data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Work Experience (NLS data), the findings indicated substantial variability as well as some decrease in the extent of home responsibilities. The major correlates are race, residence, and income.…

Investigated the extent to which Swedish couples (N=128) share domestic tasks using a mail survey. Suggests Swedish couples shared household chores more evenly than American couples. Results indicated variables measuring social exchange theory, family life-cycle stage, and socialization had the greatest influence on role sharing behavior.…

First-married couples (n=1,467) interviewed for the National Survey of Families and Households were studied to evaluate how 2 life-course measures, work history and marital timing, predicted the time each spouse spent doing mundane housework. Direct relations were found for each spouse's work history on husbands' contributions to housework.…

The studies reviewed represent three dependent variables and their correlates: values as affective elements in the decision process, the content and process of decision making, and organizational style and effectiveness of homemakers. (Author)

Compared mothers (n=1,433) and fathers (n=128) in one-parent families on time spent with children and in household work. Found that family work in one-parent households, like family work in two-parent households, is gendered, consistent with theories indicating parenting behavior is gendered. (JBJ)

Examined adult children's housework as reported by both parents and adult children in intergenerational households. Adult children reported doing substantial amounts of weekly housework, with parents reporting lower amounts, particularly for sons and for younger adult children. Adult children did more housework in one-parent than in two-parent…

Uses data from a random sample of 13,250 adolescents. Results show that mother/adolescent bonding and family drug problems have modest, indirect effects on the likelihood of adolescent drug use; father/adolescent bonding, parental monitoring, and family aggression have relatively weak effects on adolescent drug use; and religious students do not…