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Koopman-Boyden, Peggy G.; Abbott, Max – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1985
Compares engaged couples' expected gender-role differentiation of labor in marriage with their actual household task allocation one year after marriage. The acceptance of feminist ideology was the dominant predictor of household task allocation for both males and females. Parental household task allocation did not predict task allocation.…
Descriptors: Expectation, Family Structure, Feminism, Followup Studies
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Demo, 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
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Cooney, Teresa M.; Mortimer, Jeylan T. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1999
Used panel data in event history analysis examining association between family structure and departure from parental home, specifically possible mediators (parent-child relationship quality, household work efforts, psychological efficacy, family/personal income, peer involvement, childbearing). Single-parent family structure (and for girls,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Family Environment, Family Structure
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Crouter, Ann C.; Head, Melissa R.; Bumpus, Matthew F.; McHale, Susan M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Levels of involvement in household work were compared for sibling pairs in 172 families. In families where mothers had high work demands, daughters performed significantly more work than sons, and younger sisters did more work than older brothers. The gap in siblings' gender role attitudes was significantly greater in families wherein girls…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Daughters, Employed Parents, Family (Sociological Unit)