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Title: Market Income and Household Work: New Tests of Gender Performance Theory

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: I examine the contested finding that men and women engage in gender performance throughhousework. Prior scholarship has found a curvilinear association between income share andhousework that has been interpreted as evidence of gender performance. I re-examine thesefindings by conducting the first such analysis to use high quality time diary data for a U.S. sample inthe contemporary period. Drawing on data on 11,856 married women and 10,756 married men inthe American Time Use Survey (2003-2007), I find no evidence that married men do genderthrough housework. However, I find strong evidence of gender performance among women asevidenced by a curvilinear association between income share and womens housework time.

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Authors: Schneider, Daniel

Publisher: Princeton University

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Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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