Dependence within Families and the Division of Labor: Comparing Sweden and the United States

Autor/inn/en	Evertsson, Marie; Nermo, Magnus
Titel	Dependence within Families and the Division of Labor: Comparing Sweden and the United States
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 66 (2004) 5, S.1272-1286 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00092.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Females; Housework; Family Income; Gender Issues; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hausarbeit; Familieneinkommen; Geschlechterfrage
Abstract	This article assesses the relative explanatory value of the resource-bargaining perspective and the doing-gender approach for the division of housework in the United States and Sweden from the mid-1970s to 2000. The data used are the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Swedish Level of Living Survey. Overall results show that housework was truly gendered work in both countries during the entire period. Even so, the results indicate that, unlike Swedish women, U.S. women seem to increase their time spent in housework when their husbands are to some extent economically dependent on them, as if to neutralize the presumed gender deviance on the part of their spouses. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10