Social Stratification and the Division of Household Labor in Japan: The Effect of Wives' Work on the Division of Labor among Dual-earner Families

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiko Iwama
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
Dual Earner

Perceived Housework Equity, Marital Happiness, and Divorce in Dual-Earner Households

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle L. Frisco ◽  
Kristi Williams
Keyword(s):  
Marital Quality ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Marital Happiness ◽  
Perceived Fairness ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
Division Of Housework ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Relationship

This study uses a nationally representative sample of individuals involved in dual-earner marriages to examine the relationship between perceived fairness of housework completion, marital happiness, and divorce. The authors expected to find that perceived inequality in the division of housework causes tension between spouses that leads to decreased marital quality for both men and women. They further speculated that an unfair division of household labor might contribute to a greater likelihood of divorce. Results indicate that perceived inequity in the division of household labor is negatively associated with both husbands[#X2019] and wives[#X2019]reported marital happiness but is positively associated with the odds of divorce among wives only. Little evidence indicates that marital happiness mediates this relationship. The authors propose that unfair perceptions of the division of household labor not only decrease women[#X2019]s marital quality but also lead to role strain that makes them more likely to end unsatisfying marriages.

Alternative Strategies for Measuring Household Division of Labor

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
REBECCA L. WARNER
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Relative Distribution ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Weighted Distribution ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
Household Division Of Labor ◽  
Measurement Strategies

This article explores some substantive and methodological implications of using different data gathering techniques for measuring a couple's division of household labor. Four measurement strategies, each requiring reports from both spouses, compared: the relative distribution approach, a weighted distribution, a time reconstruction method, and the activity log approach. Differences in average total estimates produced by the techniques are small, and regardless of the method used, the wife's contribution to housework is higher. Responsibility for domestic labor is suggested as one explanation for the finding that cross-method comparisons are closer for wives than husbands.

scholarly journals He’s Working from Home and I’m at Home Trying to Work: Experiences of Childcare and the Work–Family Balance Among Mothers During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110484
Author(s):  
Sara Martucci
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Significant Harm ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Work Family Balance ◽  
Work Family

This article captures mothers’ experiences of the work–family balance and division of household labor during the initial COVID-19 lockdown. Interviews were conducted with twenty-five academics and twenty professionals in other fields. Mothers who split childcare with their partners had a more positive experience of the work–family balance during lockdown, compared with mothers who did the majority of the childcare. The present study adds a new wrinkle into the literature on flexibility and work–family balance: the perception of flexibility and its impact on the division of labor. Academic mothers, who had always had highly “flexible” jobs, were less likely to split childcare with their partners pre-pandemic and thus less likely to have positive experiences of work–family balance during the Spring 2020 lockdown. I argue that perceived flexibility of a partner’s job affected allocation of childcare during the initial stages of the pandemic, a moment that wreaked significant harm on women’s careers.

The Division of Household Labor in Spanish Dual Earner Couples: Testing Three Theories

Sex Roles ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 515-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salomé Goñi-Legaz ◽  
Andrea Ollo-López ◽  
Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Keyword(s):  
Household Labor ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
Dual Earner

STEREOTYPES AND REALITY IN THE DIVISION OF HOUSEHOLD LABOR

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Beckwith
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Independent Study ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Diary Data ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
Unpaid Labor ◽  
Paid Labor ◽  
Mixed Gender

The division of labor in mixed-gender households is discussed on the basis of stereotypical expectations, as well as time-use diary data. The stereotypes as generated by 210 adults, of average age 25 years, were consistent with reality, as depicted by the diary data from an independent study. In both data sets, the image of the double shift emerged. Women were seen as doing most of the unpaid work, and tasks were gender-segregated. Expectations of women, reinforced by values and power differences, appear unchanged by women's increasing participation in paid labor. Social policies which address women's experience of paid labor therefore need to address the division of unpaid labor. Equalising unpaid labor means mobilising men to become involved in essential, but unrewarded, tasks.

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