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Title: Bounded empowerment: An empirical assessment of competing perspectives on persistent gender inequality and race differences in housework sharing

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2007

ISBN: 9780549371656

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Abstract: This dissertation compares the importance of the time availability, relative resources and gender ideology perspectives, by empirically evaluating their influence in explaining gender and racial differences in the division of household labor of heterosexual married black and white couples. Using the National Survey of Families and Households (1992–1994), I explore a wide array of employment combinations, including the traditional breadwinner-homemaker arrangements, households where women earn equal or greater incomes than their husbands, where men are unemployed for periods of time when their wives are not, and where men and women combine shifts in employment where much of their time at home does not overlap. The findings suggest that the amount husbands' earn relative to their wives' income, and husbands' employment status relative to wives' status all come together to shape how husbands express their masculinity. Further, I show that there is a shift toward greater . . .

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Authors: Louis, Vincent Victor

Institution: Temple University

Department: Pennsylvania

Advisor: David Elesh

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Pennsylvania

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Housing and Segregation, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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