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Direct linkMilkie, Melissa A.; Raley, Sara B.; Bianchi, Suzanne M. – Social Forces, 2009
The term "second shift" from Hochschild's (1989) classic volume is commonly used by scholars to mean that employed mothers face an unequal load of household labor and thus a "double day" of work. We use two representative samples of contemporary U.S. parents with preschoolers to test how mothers employed fulltime and married to a full-time worker…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Fathers, Time Management
Wilcox, W. Bradford; Nock, Steven L. – Social Forces, 2006
The companionate theory of marriage suggests that egalitarianism in practice and belief leads to higher marital quality for wives and higher levels of positive emotion work on the part of husbands. Our analysis of women's marital quality and men's marital emotion work provides little evidence in support of this theory. Rather, in examining women's…
Descriptors: Evidence, Marital Satisfaction, Females, Marriage
van de Rijt, Arnout; Macy, Michael W. – Social Forces, 2006
A division of labor is mediated by exchange of valued goods and services. We use social exchange theory to extend this principal to "labors of love." Sexual activity in a close personal relationship seems outside the domain of bargaining and exchange. Nevertheless, we explore the possibility that this most intimate of human relations is influenced…
Descriptors: Evidence, Interpersonal Attraction, Interpersonal Relationship, Sexuality
de Ruijter, Esther; Treas, Judith K.; Cohen, Philip N. – Social Forces, 2005
Using data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey 1998, this study analyzes how much money different types of households spend for domestic services on "female" and "male" tasks. We test alternative hypotheses based on economic and sociological theories of gender differentiation. Contrary to arguments that marriage lowers the risk to one…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Females, Males, Expenditures
Chen, Feinian – Social Forces, 2005
Highlighting one aspect of the economic transition in China (industrialization), this article focuses on how a change in employment from an agricultural to a non-agricultural job could change the household division of labor. Longitudinal analysis of data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey showed that such job shifts affected the household…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industrialization, Career Change, Labor
Peer reviewedSanchez, Laura – Social Forces, 1994
Data from the 1988 National Survey of Families and Households indicate that men's housework and child-rearing efforts are powerful determinants of wives' and husbands' perceptions of the fairness of the division of household chores. Wives' employment hours have no effect on husbands' fairness perceptions but are significantly related to wives'…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Family Life, Females, Housework
