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Husband/Wife Differentials In Household Work Time: The Case of Dual‐Earner Families
Author(s) -
AbdelGhany Mohamed,
Nickols Sharon Y.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x8301200207
Subject(s) - wife , socioeconomic status , differential (mechanical device) , work (physics) , dual (grammatical number) , demographic economics , variance (accounting) , paid work , conceptual framework , economics , labour economics , sociology , demography , political science , working hours , social science , mechanical engineering , art , population , literature , accounting , engineering , law , aerospace engineering
In spite of the tremendous increase in the burden of market work faced by married American women in the last decade, the differential in household work time between husbands and wives still persists. The results of this study assert that the differences in socioeconomic characteristics between husbands and wives explain only part of that differential. We argue that persisting role expec tations that assign household work on the basis of sex might explain the major part of the variance, and that these role expectations are partly clarified by the conceptual framework of the work‐family role system.