Full Citation

Title: Men's and Women's Time Use: Comparing Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2018

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: How we spend our time has important implications for our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of our families. Prior research has shown that women in same-sex couples spend more time in paid work and less time in housework than women in different-sex couples, whereas men in same-sex couples spend less time in paid work and more time in housework than men in different-sex couples. Scholars tend to attribute these differences to an ‘egalitarian ethic’ of same-sex couples, ignoring the role of differences in personal characteristics between same-sex and different-sex couples, including sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., education, age), economic characteristics (e.g., hourly wage), family characteristics (e.g., residential children), relative resources between spouses, and occupational sex composition, in contributing to the gaps in paid work hours and housework between these couple types. Very little research has compared leisure time between same-sex and different-sex couples. I draw on data from the 2015–2017 Current Population Survey and the 2003–2016 American Time Use Survey to address these gaps in the literature and contribute . . .

Url: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1530144962678369&disposition=inline

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Fettro, Marshal Neal

Institution: Bowling Green State University

Department: Graduate College

Advisor: Kei Nomaguchi

Degree: Ph.D

Publisher Location: Bowling Green, Ohio

Pages: 216

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS, IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Work, Family, and Time

Countries: