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Peer reviewedKamo, Yoshinori – Journal of Family Issues, 1988
Examined factors correlated with amount of husband's participation in domestic work, using data from sample of married couples (N=3,649). Found spouses' earnings, work status, sex-role orientations, their power relationship, and the interaction between power and sex-role orientations were related to the husband's relative share in domestic work.…
Descriptors: Employment, Housework, Individual Power, Salaries
Peer reviewedBlair, Sampson Lee; Johnson, Michael P. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992
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…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Employed Women, Employment, Homemakers
Peer reviewedFerree, Myra Marx – Journal of Family Issues, 1991
Examined data drawn from representative sample survey of two-earner households (n=382 couples) on division of domestic labor. Concludes that implicitly and explicitly gendered expectations that both husbands and wives bring to thinking about housework play significant role in shaping degree of egalitarianism in practice. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Dual Career Family, Employed Parents, Employment, Housework
Direct linkCast, Alicia D.; Bird, Sharon R. – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2005
Our work contributes to research on variation in role-taking by investigating changes in perceptions of role-taking ability over time as a result of exposure to situations and activities typically associated with others; that is, we investigate how "walking in others' shoes" contributes to individuals' perceptions of role-taking ability. Using a…
Descriptors: Spouses, Labor, Housework, Role
Beaujot, Roderic; Liu, Jianye – Journal of Family Issues, 2005
Models of time use need to consider especially the reproductive and productive activities of women and men. For husband-wife families, the breadwinner, one-earner, or complementary-roles model has advantages in terms of efficiency or specialization and stability; however, it is a high-risk model for women and children. The alternate model has been…
Descriptors: Females, Spouses, Models, Time Management
Kroska, Amy – Journal of Family Issues, 2004
Using a sample of 101 heterosexual, co-residential couples, the author evaluates four housework theories: gender ideology, relative resources, time availability, and doing gender. Unlike some tests of these theories, the author operationalizes gender ideology as an identity, and the author tests the models on the traditionally feminine chores as…
Descriptors: Spouses, Ideology, Housework, Gender Differences
