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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 reviewedBenin, Mary Holland; Edwards, Debra A. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1990
Investigated effects of family employment structure on adolescents' (N=176) participation in family chores. Results indicated that dual-earner families were more sexist than traditional families with respect to time in chores demanded of sons and daughters. Although traditional families required equal amounts of chore time from sons and daughters,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Responsibility, Child Role, Daughters
