To Marry or Not to Marry: Marital Status and the Household Division of Labor

Autor/in	Baxter, Janeen
Titel	To Marry or Not to Marry: Marital Status and the Household Division of Labor
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 26 (2005) 3, S.300-321 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X04270473
Schlagwörter	Marriage; Females; Marital Status; Labor; Housework; Family Work Relationship; Foreign Countries; Surveys; Interpersonal Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehe; Weibliches Geschlecht; Familienstand; Hausarbeit; Ausland; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	Data from an Australian national survey (1996 to 1997) are used to examine domestic labor patterns among de facto and married men and women. The results show that women spend more time on housework and do a greater proportion of housework than men. However, the patterns are most traditional among married men and women. Women in de facto relationships spend less time doing housework and do a smaller proportion of indoor activities than married women. Men in de facto relationships do a larger proportion of indoor activities and a lower proportion of outdoor tasks than married men. The data also show that couples who have cohabited prior to marriage have more egalitarian divisions of labor than those who have not cohabited prior to marriage. This article concludes by arguing that the incompleteness of the de facto relationship provides a period of relative freedom in which to negotiate more equal roles. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10