The Study for the husband-wife relationships

本研究在大阪市、爱知县和山梨县进行实地调查。我们从878名大阪妻子、392名大阪丈夫、304名爱奇妻子、44名山梨县妻子和41名山梨县丈夫那里获得了完整的、可用的问卷。研究结果是；1. 夫妻之间的家务分工——传统的性别分工仍然盛行，特别是在农村地区。妻子希望丈夫比现在更多地参与家务劳动。2. 家庭决策——妻子认为丈夫不应该自己做家庭决定，而应该和妻子讨论家庭问题。然而，妻子们并没有强烈地意识到她们对丈夫在决策方面的主导地位的不满。因此，不能说丈夫和妻子之间在家庭决策方面的冲突是常见的。民主的家庭决策尚未成为社会规范，而仅仅是妻子的愿望。3. 休闲活动中的陪伴——许多情侣一起在餐馆吃午餐或晚餐，但很少有情侣一起旅行或去看戏剧。与妻子相比，更多的丈夫希望与配偶分享休闲活动。4. 相互理解——妻子对丈夫最大的不满是丈夫不理解她们的感受。丈夫和配偶交谈的频率比妻子少。但夫妻之间的冲突，作为妻子对丈夫缺乏理解的不满的表达并不常见。这一事实似乎证明，夫妻平等的规范尚未得到充分发展。

The field research of this study was made in osaka City, Aich prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture. We got completed,usable questionairs from 878 osaka wives, 392 Osaka husbands, 304 Aich wives and 44 Yamanashi wives and 41 Yamanashi husbands. The findings are; 1. Division of housework between husband and wife--- The traditional division of labour by sex still prevaits, especially in rural areas. Wives expect husbands to participate more in houseworks than they currently do. 2. Family decision making---Wives think that husbands should not make family decisions by themselves, but should talk with wives over the family matters.However wives are not strongly conscious of their dissatisfaction with husbands' dominance over decision making. Consequently, conflicts cannot be said to be common between husbands and wives over family decision making. The democratic family decision making has not become the social norm yet, but remain merely desire of wives. 3. Companionship in leisure activities---Many couples take lunch or dinner at restaurants together but there are not many couples who travel or go to the theater together. More husbands than wives wish to share leisure activities with spouses. 4. Mutual understanding---Wives' strongest dissatisfaction with husbands is that husbands do not understand their feelings. Husnands talk to spouse less frequently than wives do. But conflicts between husbands and wives as expressions of wives' dissatisfaction with husbands' lack of understanding are not common. The fact seems to evidence that the norm of the equality of spouses has not fully developed yet.