Third, although
gendered housework was linked to more sex, it did not translate to a huge increase in sexual activity.
This means that while
gendered housework and sexual frequency are statistically associated, we don't know why and we don't even know if this association is meaningful.
Gendered housework may not be driving sexual frequency at all.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, although frequency of sex was higher among those who engaged in
gendered housework, we do not know if that translated to higher levels of sexual satisfaction.
Not exact matches
In Canada, you don't have to read very far into Erin Anderssen's Globe and Mail series on
housework to see
gender tensions boiling over.
This, despite the fact that conservative Protestant households are more
gender - traditional in terms of duties than others, with husbands performing less
housework than husbands in other categories.
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Researchers questioned 13,500 men and women aged between 20 and 45 from each country about
gender,
housework and childcare responsibilities.
Eliminating the
gender gap in wages would lead to married women doing much less
housework.
It's very much «all hands on deck» but when there is more time available on the weekend and parents are not so pressed to get everything done, then we see the emergence of
gendered patterns and inequality where women do a lot more
housework and childcare while he leisures,» Yavorsky said.
These findings suggest that eliminating the
gender gap entirely would cause women to become 18 percentage points more likely to work full - time in the labour market and even out the time spent on
housework by reducing it (mostly for women) by as much as seven hours per week.
Findings from a study in Springer's journal Sex Roles demonstrate the persistent
gendered nature of how
housework is divided, says lead author Rebecca Horne of the University of Alberta in Canada.
«Women, wages and
housework: How closing the
gender pay gap splits chores more evenly.»
The study results are also discussed in the Council on Contemporary Families» Symposium on
Housework,
Gender and Parenthood that was released today.
New study looks at
gender, health and
housework among older couples.»
A new study from the University of Utah that examined
gender, health and
housework among married, heterosexual couples who are no longer employed found a woman's health has to be considerably impaired before she stops doing chores and her husband takes on more of those duties.
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Housework gender differences may affect health in elderly men and women.»
The persistence of these
gender differences across rank is consistent with research showing that girls do more
housework than boys even at a very young age.
If your partner believes in strict
gender roles where women do all the
housework and child - rearing while men have a place in the workforce, they may also believe that you need to submit to their will financially and sexually as well.
And we're not talking about just a few women: About 67 % of women perceived their relationships as «not
gender - equal,» and 70 % of women said they did more than half of the
housework.
Fact: «Comparative studies have consistently found that women perform the lion's share of
housework... Despite the huge imbalances... scholars have been surprised by the relatively low prevalence of perceptions of injustice on the part of women... The interplay of the three legitimizing principles (time availability, resource dependence, and
gender ideology) and the inequality of household division of labor is decisive.
Studies that track women and men as they transition into marriage and parenthood indicate that newly married couples in first marriages share employment and
housework relatively easily, but becoming a parent creates a more
gendered division of labor.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, the consensus of the emerging profession of marital counseling was that marital happiness and sexual satisfaction depended upon a couple's adherence to traditional
gender roles, with the husband doing the bulk of the breadwinning and the wife doing most of the
housework.
Furthermore, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the increase in men's
housework slowed or even declined, as did several others measures of progress toward
gender equity.
An introduction to the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium on
Housework,
Gender, and Parenthood by Stephanie Coontz, Council on Contemporary Families Director of Research and Public Education
This CCF Online Symposium on
Housework,
Gender and Parenthood shows, however, that the division of labor in the home is more complicated than sometimes assumed, and that neither the institution of marriage itself nor «slacker husbands» are to blame for most contemporary sources of gender ine
Gender and Parenthood shows, however, that the division of labor in the home is more complicated than sometimes assumed, and that neither the institution of marriage itself nor «slacker husbands» are to blame for most contemporary sources of
gender ine
gender inequity.
However, like
housework and childcare, the distribution of emotional work is
gendered.»
Gender, High - And Low - Control
Housework Tasks and Psychological Distress: A Study of Dual - Earner Couples (1995)
A new study, «The
Gendered Division of
Housework and Couples» Sexual Relationships: A Reexamination» looks at the sex lives of three types of heterosexual couples: conventional (the woman does 65 percent or more of the housework), egalitarian (the male partner performs 35 - 65 percent of the housework) and counterconventional (the man performs 65 percent or more of the ho
Housework and Couples» Sexual Relationships: A Reexamination» looks at the sex lives of three types of heterosexual couples: conventional (the woman does 65 percent or more of the
housework), egalitarian (the male partner performs 35 - 65 percent of the housework) and counterconventional (the man performs 65 percent or more of the ho
housework), egalitarian (the male partner performs 35 - 65 percent of the
housework) and counterconventional (the man performs 65 percent or more of the ho
housework) and counterconventional (the man performs 65 percent or more of the
houseworkhousework).