These results are consistent with Feeney et al. (2001) and Baxter et al. (2008) who also found that mothers were spending more time on division of
household labor tasks after their children were brought home.
Not exact matches
If you've always split
household tasks with your mate, this new division of
labor can be unsettling.
The text reads as follows: Westinghouse ELECTRIC UTILITIES FOR THE
HOUSEHOLD Fuel and
Labor Many are the steps that electrical appliances save, and many the
tasks they lighten.
Like many - handed Hindu goddesses, women are better jugglers (in my experience), sweeping through their lives performing several
tasks at once, while men seemingly do things sequentially — a division of
labor that certainly prevails in our
household.
For each marital partner to feel good about the division of
labor, you may need to re-design your
household list or re-assign
tasks.
Fact:» [E] mployed women tend to label unbalanced divisions of
labor as fair and from research showing that men who do little persist in seeing the allocation of
household tasks as fair (Ward, 1993).
Although gender ideologies and perceptions of equity in the division of
household tasks have been associated with marital quality, there is limited understanding of the relationship between discrepancies (in husbands» and wives» subjective ideals and accounts of the division of
labor) and relationship quality.
The division of
household labor was measured using the 12 - item
household and family
task dimension found in Cowan & Cowan's (1979, 1990) Who Does What?
Division of
household labor expectations were measured using the same
household and family
task dimension discussed previously, however, questions were posed differently in order to target mothers» expectations; mothers were asked how they would like it to be.