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Article: Gender differences in perceptions of household labor.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Gender differences in household labor in the United States have been documented by an extensive literature (e.g., Berardo, Shehan, & Leslie, 1987; Coverman, 1989; Hiller & Philliber, 1986). Despite gender-related changes in economic roles, women continue to perform a greater proportion of domestic tasks than men do (Hochschild, 1989; Mederer, 1993).
In fact, men whose wives are employed outside the home typically spend little more time on housework than men whose wives are not employed (Berardo et al., 1987; Berk, 1985; Huber & Spitze, 1983; Ross, 1987). For example, in averaging estimates from the leading studies of time use, Hochschild (1989) found that women ...