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Article: The division of household labor in Taiwan.
- Article from:
- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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With the rapid economic development and the expanding demand for women's labor, female labor force participation rates in Taiwan climbed from 32.6% in 1966 to 46.1% in 2001 (Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, 2002). Consequently, the question of whether the change in women's economic status has produced a more equal division of household labor in Taiwan has arisen. While studies in the past few decades have yielded a large amount of knowledge about the division of labor among couples in western industrialized societies, we know relatively little about the division among couples in non-western societies. The present paper examines whether the ...