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  • Title: Determinants of household division of labor: resources, power, and ideology.
    Author: Kamo Y.
    Journal: J Fam Issues; 1988 Jun; 9(2):177-200. PubMed ID: 12281761.
    Abstract:
    Kamo examines factors that are correlated with amount of a husband's participation in domestic work. Data are from the American Couples Survey conducted in 1978 (n=3649). Subjects were asked to rate on a 9-point scale who did each of 15 domestic work items more often. Tasks were weighted various amounts and regression analyses and subanalyses were conducted. It was hypothesized that both spouses' earnings, work status, sex-role orientations, their power relationship, and the interaction between power and sex-role orientations were related to the husband's relative share in domestic work. Some study findings follow. 1) On the average, husbands carry 36% of the total domestic work load, or about 1/2 the domestic work load carried by their wives. 2) For couples in which both spouses work full time outside the home, the husband's input averages 41%; this increases to 43% when both earn approximately the same amount of money. 3) Neither an equal nor equitable relationship seems to exist between the 2 partners of most married couples. 4) Findings indicate that those who do not hold a full-time job will do relatively more domestic work than those employed on a full-time basis. 5) The more decisions the husband makes in a marital relationship, the more domestic work he does. 6) Both partners' sex-role orientations are associated with how much domestic work they do relative to each other; however, it is suggested that the husband's attitude toward the sexual division of labor has a stronger relationship than his wife's. 7) The wife's education has no direct relationship with the task-sharing pattern of the couple.
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