Changing the division of household labor : A negotiated process between partners

This short-term longitudinal study expands on previous theoretical approaches, as we examined how women's assertiveness and the strategies they use to elicit more household labor from husbands help to explain the division of labor and how it changes. Participants included 81 married women with...

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Published in:Sex roles 2007-03, Vol.56 (5-6), p.309-324
Main Authors: MANNINO, Clelia Anna, DEUTSCH, Francine M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assertiveness
Biological and medical sciences
Changes
Child care
Child Care Services
Couple and family
Family income
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Households
Housework
Labor
Longitudinal Studies
Marriage
Married women
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Sex roles
Sexual Division of Labor
Social psychology
Social role. Sex role
Spouses
Theory
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Summary:This short-term longitudinal study expands on previous theoretical approaches, as we examined how women's assertiveness and the strategies they use to elicit more household labor from husbands help to explain the division of labor and how it changes. Participants included 81 married women with 3- and 4-year-old children who completed two telephone interviews, approximately 2 months apart. Results based on quantitative and qualitative analyses show that (a) relative resource, structural, and gender ideology variables predicted the division of housework, but not child care, (b) assertive women were closer to their ideal division of childcare than nonassertive women, (c) women who made larger proportion of family income were less assertive about household labor than other women, but when they were assertive, they had a more equal division of childcare, (d) women who earned the majority of their household's income showed the least change, and (e) the nature of women's attempts to elicit change may be critical to their success. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0360-0025
1573-2762
DOI:10.1007/s11199-006-9181-1