Housework: Who Did, Does or Will Do It, and How Much Does It Matter?
Housework: Who Did, Does or Will Do It, and How Much Does It Matter?
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DOI:
10.1093/sf/sos120
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发表时间:
2012-09-01
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影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Robinson, John P.
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作者:
Bianchi, Suzanne M.;Sayer, Liana C.;Robinson, John P.
“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, & Bianch i 2009).The collection and release of the large and nationally representative 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) unleashed a flurry of housework articles in the quantitative sociological literature. The NSFH had the advantage of reports of housework from both members of a couple and husbands’ and wives’ assessments of fairness in the household division of labor, but these data could not provide the trend analysis critical to the understanding of social change that time diary data collections allowed.“Is Anyone Doing the Housework?” used the NSFH but also presented analysis of the only nationally representative data available–time diaries–with which to assess trends in housework and broaden the discussion of how women and men might be reallocating time in the home during a period of rapid change in women’s work outside the home.