Husbands and Wives in Dual-Earner Marriages: Decision-Making, Gender Role Attitudes, Division of Household Labor, and Equity

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon J. Bartley ◽  
Priscilla W. Blanton ◽  
Jennifer L. Gilliard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Gender Role Attitudes and Parents’ Intention to Continue Childbearing in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serap Kavas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Fertility Decision ◽  
Intention To Continue ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Significant Factors

It is increasingly acknowledged that gender (in-) equality is one of the most significant factors underlying change in fertility behavior. Researchers have extensively studied the link between gender (in-) equality and fertility decision-making in various settings. However, most of these studies have focused on industrialized countries in North America, Europe, and East Asia, while very few examine this relationship in a non-western, developing country context. Employing individual-level survey data, this paper examines the relationship between parents’ gender role attitudes and their fertility intentions for an additional child in urban Turkey, surveyed in 2014. The findings of this study show that parents’ attitudes toward gender roles were not an important predictor of fertility decision-making in Turkey. This study suggests that the lack of significant findings supporting the expected association may be related to the measurement of gender role attitudes, suggesting a need to construct a measure that addresses culture-specific aspects of gender roles. This study contributes to the literature by providing a new data point, Turkey, and bringing a comparative perspective to the existing research.

The Cognitive Dimension of Household Labor

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Daminger
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Cognitive Dimension ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Monitoring Progress

Household labor is commonly defined as a set of physical tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and shopping. Sociologists sometimes reference non-physical activities related to “household management,” but these are typically mentioned in passing, imprecisely defined, or treated as equivalent to physical tasks. Using 70 in-depth interviews with members of 35 couples, this study argues that such tasks are better understood as examples of a unique dimension of housework: cognitive labor. The data demonstrate that cognitive labor entails anticipating needs, identifying options for filling them, making decisions, and monitoring progress. Because such work is taxing but often invisible to both cognitive laborers and their partners, it is a frequent source of conflict for couples. Cognitive labor is also a gendered phenomenon: women in this study do more cognitive labor overall and more of the anticipation and monitoring work in particular. However, male and female participation in decision-making, arguably the cognitive labor component most closely linked to power and influence, is roughly equal. These findings identify and define an overlooked—yet potentially consequential—source of gender inequality at the household level and suggest a new direction for research on the division of household labor.

scholarly journals Gender Equality in Europe and the Effect of Work-Family Balance Policies on Gender-Role Attitudes

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Lomazzi ◽  
Sabine Israel ◽  
Isabella Crespi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
National Income ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
Family Model ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Work Family Balance ◽  
Work Family

This study starts from the assumption that the context of opportunities for work-family balance affects individual attitudes toward gender roles, a main indicator of support for gender equality. Compared with extant research, the present study adopts a more articulated definition of “opportunity structure” that includes national income level and social norms on gender attitudes, measures of gender-mainstreaming policies implemented at the company level (flextime), and different work-family balance policies in support of the dual-earner/dual-caregiver family model (e.g., parental-leave schemes and childcare provisions). The effects of these factors are estimated by performing a cross-sectional multilevel analysis for the year 2014. Gender-role attitudes and micro-level controls are taken from the Eurobarometer for all 28 European Union (EU) members, while macro-indicators stem from Eurostat, European Quality of Work Survey, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Our results show that both institutional and workplace arrangements supporting the dual-earner/dual-caregiver family model are associated with more egalitarian gender-role attitudes This is particularly true concerning availability of formal childcare for 0- to 3-year-olds among institutional factors, as well as work-schedule flexibility among workplace factors, probably as they enable a combination of care and paid work for both men and women.

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