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Title: Market Earnings and Household Work: New Tests of Gender Performance Theory
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2011
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Abstract: I examine the contested finding that men and women engage in gender performance through housework. Prior scholarship has found a curvilinear association between earnings share and housework that has been interpreted as evidence of gender performance. I reexamine these findings by conducting the first such analysis to use high-quality time diary data for a U.S. sample in the contemporary period. Drawing on data on 11,868 married women and 10,770 married men in the American Time Use Survey (20032007), I find no evidence that married men do gender through housework. I do, however, find strong evidence of gender performance among women as evidenced by a curvilinear association between earnings share and women's housework time.
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Authors: Schneider, Daniel
Periodical (Full): Journal of Marriage and Family
Issue: 4
Volume: 73
Pages: 845-860
Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS
Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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