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Title: Women's Housework: New Tests of Time and Money

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: The author uses variation by the day of week-comparing weekdays to weekends-to reconsider three main explanations for variation in women's housework time. The author predicts that though evidence of gender deviance neutralization (GDN) should be evident across the days of the week, evidence of time constraints and absolute earnings should be most apparent on weekdays. The author tests these hypotheses with the largest sample to date (American Time Use Survey 2003-2012) and careful consideration of the functional form between resources/constraints and housework time. The author finds that all three measures of resources/constraints-relative earnings, absolute earnings, and employment hours-perform as poor predictors of women's housework on weekends. Weekends are when women, regardless of employment status, do gender, but not in the way hypothesized by GDN. On weekdays, women's own employment hours and earnings have negative, but diminishing, effects on their housework time. GDN is not supported.

Url: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12351/full

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Authors: Hook, Jennifer L

Periodical (Full): Journal of Marriage and Family

Issue: 1

Volume: 79

Pages: 179-198

Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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