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Peer reviewedShelton, Beth Anne; John, Daphne – Journal of Family Issues, 1993
Compared time that cohabiting and married women and men spend doing housework. Analysis of data from 1987 National Survey of Families and Households revealed that marital status affected women's household labor time but not men's; married women spent significantly more time on housework than did cohabiting women. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Cohabitation, Homemakers, Housework, Marriage
Peer reviewedBenin, Mary Holland; Agostinelli, Joan – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1988
Surveyed dual-employed couple to explore causes of satisfaction with and arguments over division of household labor. Found husbands more satisfied with equitable division; wives more satisfied with division favoring them. Wives were more content if husbands shared women's traditional chores. Spouses disagreed about how often they argued over…
Descriptors: Dual Career Family, Family Life, Homemakers, Housework
Peer reviewedSzinovacz, Maximiliane – Family Relations, 1992
Investigated whether perceived involvement in household work after retirement related to husbands' and wives' retirement adaptation. Data from 611 recent retirees showed positive effect of postretirement housework involvement on women's adjustment. For men, relationship between housework and adaptation was contingent on such factors as health,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Homemakers, Housework, Physical Health
Peer reviewedBerardo, Donna Hodgkins; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1987
Compared amount of time dual-career husbands and wives spent in housework (total N=1,565) relative to their same-sex counterparts in other dual-earner and single-earner households (N=1,565). Found that dual-career couples were not more egalitarian than other couples in allocation of time to household labor. Discusses consequences for extent of…
Descriptors: Dual Career Family, Employed Women, Family Life, Homemakers
Peer reviewedDemo, David H.; Acock, Alan C. – Family Relations, 1993
Used data from nationally representative sample (n=2,528) to examine division of household labor in first-marriage families, stepfamilies, families headed by divorced mothers, and families headed by never-married mothers. Findings indicated that, across family types and regardless of women's employment status, women performed two to three times…
Descriptors: Cohabitation, Divorce, Employment Level, Family Structure
Download full textPavan, Barbara Nelson – 1987
A survey of male and female school administrators in Pennsylvania reveals that sexual division of labor in household activities differs little from stereotypical role expectations. A survey, mailed to 1,324 male and female administrative incumbents and aspirants, yielded 622 responses for a rate of 47 percent. The survey explored personal…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education
