Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, examined gender-based segregation of family labor, focusing on effects of time availability, family power, and gender role ideology. Found American couples exhibited highly sex-segregated family work patterns. (Author/ABL)

Analyzed determinants of wives' perceptions of fairness of division of household labor. Data from 1988 National Survey of Families and Households indicated that husbands' contributions to "female" tasks and appreciation of women's household labor were most important determinants of wives' perceptions of fairness, with strength of…

Two theories of children's household labor participation (child socialization or the need for household labor) involving 1,352 families from the 1988 National Survey of Families and Households find support for both, with more confirmation for the pragmatic (labor needed) aspects. Children's efforts represent about 12 percent of all household…

Examines sex-typing of children's housework and how parents indirectly and directly affect children's chores. Data for 600 households from the 1988 National Survey of Families and Households show that sex-typing is common and that father and mother effects were strongest in relation to the child of the same sex. (JB)