How Couples Manage the Household: Work and Power in Cross-National Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Treas, Judith; Tai, Tsui-o
Titel	How Couples Manage the Household: Work and Power in Cross-National Perspective
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 33 (2012) 8, S.1088-1116 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X11426700
Schlagwörter	Decision Making; Housework; Spouses; Sex Role; Gender Differences; Females; Employed Women; Marriage; Interpersonal Relationship; Theories; Home Management; Power Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Hausarbeit; Ehepartner; Geschlechterrolle; Geschlechterkonflikt; Weibliches Geschlecht; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Ehe; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Theory; Theorie; Haushaltswesen
Abstract	Despite many studies on the gendered division of housework, there is little research on how couples divide the work of household management. Relative resource theories of household bargaining inform analyses of who does the housework, but their applicability to household management is unclear, if only because management responsibility may be viewed as unwanted drudgery or as coveted control over family and household. Building on theories of power and exchange, this article examines the relation of relative resources and management responsibility and asks whether the partner who does more housework also does more management. According to 2002 International Social Survey Program data for 31 countries, three fourths of married persons report joint, rather than individual, decision making on children's upbringing, weekend activities, and major purchases. Supporting a gendered relative resource hypothesis, women, and not men, are more likely to take sole charge of household decision making when their income is higher than their partner's. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10