Housework: Who Did, Does or Will Do It, and How Much Does It Matter?
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- 13 August 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Forces
- Vol. 91 (1), 55-63
- https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sos120
Abstract
“Is Anyone Doing the Housework?” (Bianchi et al. 2000) was motivated, like much of the research on housework, by a desire to better understand gender inequality and social change in the work and family arena in the United States. During the 1990s, Arlie Hochschild's (1989) influential book, The Second Shift, provided the dominant assessment of the gender division of labor in the home (Konigsberg 2011): men were unwilling to share the burden of work in the home and thus employed women came home to a “second shift” of housework and childcare, increasing gender inequality. Her rich qualitative study was based on a small sample of unknown generalizability, however (Milkie, Raley, & Bianchi 2009).This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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