Market Earnings and Household Work: New Tests of Gender Performance Theory

I examine the contested finding that men and women engage in gender performance through housework. Prior scholarship has found a curvilinear association between earnings share and housework that has been interpreted as evidence of gender performance. I reexamine these findings by conducting the firs...

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Published in:Journal of marriage and family 2011-08, Vol.73 (4), p.845-860
Main Author: Schneider, Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Autobiographical Materials
Bargaining theory
Comparable Worth
Data analysis
Diaries
Division of labour
Earnings
Evidence
family and work
Family life
Females
Gender
Gender equality
Gender Issues
Gender performativity
Gender relations
Households
Housekeeping
Housework
housework/division of labor
Husbands
Males
Marital Status
Markets
Men
Of General Interest
Performance theory
Sex
Sex Fairness
Sex Role
Sexuality. Marriage. Family relations
Sociology
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Spouses
Surveys
Theory
Time
U.S.A
United States
Wives
Woman social status. Women's emancipation
Womens rights
Work hours
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Summary:I examine the contested finding that men and women engage in gender performance through housework. Prior scholarship has found a curvilinear association between earnings share and housework that has been interpreted as evidence of gender performance. I reexamine these findings by conducting the first such analysis to use high-quality time diary data for a U.S. sample in the contemporary period. Drawing on data on 11,868 married women and 10,770 married men in the American Time Use Survey (2003-2007), I find no evidence that married men "do gender" through housework. I do, however, find strong evidence of gender performance among women as evidenced by a curvilinear association between earnings share and women's housework time.
ISSN:0022-2445
1741-3737
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00851.x