Divisions of Domestic Work: Revising and Expanding the Theoretical Explanations

Autor/in	Kroska, Amy
Titel	Divisions of Domestic Work: Revising and Expanding the Theoretical Explanations
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 25 (2004) 7, S.900-932 (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X04267149
Schlagwörter	Spouses; Ideology; Housework; Gender Differences; Sex Stereotypes; Time Management; Masculinity; Sexual Identity; Employment; Predictor Variables; Income + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehepartner; Ideologie; Hausarbeit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Zeitmanagement; Männlichkeit; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Dienstverhältnis; Prädiktor; Einkommen
Abstract	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 well as the traditionally masculine and gender-neutral chores. Using the new operationalization, the author finds that gender ideology is related to the allocation of feminine tasks but generally unrelated to the division of nonfeminine chores. Wives' and husbands' time availability also helps explain the division of feminine and, to a lesser extent, gender-neutral chores. Some socioeconomic resources are related to the allocation of each housework category although absolute and relative resources often have contrasting effects when controlling for both. Regardless of gender ideology, time availability, or resources, however, wives do a significantly greater share of their family's total and feminine housework, and husbands do a significantly greater share of their family's masculine chores. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10