Division of Household Work: A Decade Comparison—1967–1977

Sanik, Margaret Mietus

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“…The majority of multivariate investigations have found that there is a negative relationship between mother's employment status and the opportunity cost of her time and the time parents spend caring for children (Coverman & Sheley, 1986;Gershuny & Robinson, 1988;Hill & Stafford, 1985;Kooreman & Kapteyn, 1987;Medrich, Roizen, Rubin, & Buckley, 1982;Nock & Kingston, 1988;Sanik, 1981). A minority of the analyses, however, present counterevidence regarding mothers' employment and time spent with children.…”

Section: Parental Time Spent With Childrenmentioning

confidence: 85%

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The economics of housespousery: An essay on household work

Bryant

Zick

1994

J Fam Econ Iss

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ABSTRACT:The economic model of the household has been used extensively to examine questions relating to work within the household. This essay takes a critical look at this model and these household work applications. It concludes that the model provides several useful insights regarding factors that have influenced the decline in women's household work time during this century and the changes in the overall economic value of household work. In other areas (e.g., parental child care), the model has rarely been used although it has the potential to provide useful insights. Finally, in certain applications, such as investigations of the gender-related specialization of function within the household, the model relies on unrealistic assumptions that need to be modified if it is to prove useful.

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Section: Parental Time Spent With Childrenmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…To extend the descriptions of the trends in household work to the mid-1970s, the work of Gershuny and Robinson (1988) and of Sanik (1981) are reviewed. These two studies differ in their sampling designs.…”

Section: Trends In the Time Spent In Household Workmentioning

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The economics of housespousery: An essay on household work

Bryant

Zick

1994

J Fam Econ Iss

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“…Peterson (1979) provided additional evidence that meal preparation continued to be mainly the wife's responsibility, regardless of her employment status. Sanik (1981) tasks, but the increment per hour of the wife's employment was small. Inverse relationships were exhibited between the wife's employment hours and total family time in these tasks, the husband's employment hours and his time in food preparation, and the wife's education and the children's time in dishwashing.…”

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“…Inverse relationships were exhibited between the wife's employment hours and total family time in these tasks, the husband's employment hours and his time in food preparation, and the wife's education and the children's time in dishwashing. The age of the older child was positively correlated with the wife's, children's, and total family's time in food preparation tasks (Sanik, 1981).…”

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Predictors of Time Allocation to Food Tasks in Dual‐Earner Families

Miller¹,

Ackerman

1990

Home Economics Research Journal

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While married women's labor force participation rates have risen, food tasks in the home have remained primarily women's work. Involvement of other family members in food tasks could ease the workload of employed wives. This study identified predictors of the husband's and children's food task time and compared them to predictors of wife's and total family's food task time. A national sample of 562 dual-earner families was used. Regression equations were computed for husbands, children, wives, and the total family. The strongest predictor of husband's, wife's, and total family's food task time was the day of week. Food task time was highest on Saturday and Sunday. The food task time of children, wives, and total family—but not husband—differed among four dual-earner family categories, which were based on husband's earnings and a husband/wife earnings ratio. Limited variance was explained.

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“…Also, as explained in the model section, actual hours of employment, along with actual market wage, are endogenous. sOnly wife's time in household activities is considered because wives, employed or not, have primary responsibility for running households, including clothing acquisition and maintenance (Sanik 1981;Vanek 1974;Walker and Woods 1976). qit = h'(pct, Pqt,Wt, Vt; Zit) + Uit (i = c, g, n)…”

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Impact of Married Women's Employment on Individual Household Member Expenditures for Clothing

Weese

Norton

1991

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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Family member and per capita clothing expenditures are estimated via tobit, using 1980-1981 Consumer Expenditure Survey data. Occupation categories are developed and implicit wage rates imputed for each wife in the sample. Employed-wife households have higher expenditures for clothing than do nonemployed-wife households and wife's occupation differentially affects family member expenditures. Wife's implicit wage is not significant, while wife's unearned income has a positive impact on all categories of expenditures except for infants. These results indicate that it is not possible to generalize across family members about the influence of income and sociodemographic variables on clothing expenditures.The dramatic increase in married women's labor force participation has resulted in two-earner, husband-wife families outnumbering families in which the wife is not employed (Hayghe and Haugen 1987). In the past, wife's employment was viewed as secondary or intermittent but married women are now a significant and permanent part of the paid work force.Wives' employment frequently leads to more dependence on the marketplace for goods and services as wives' time for home work and leisure declines (Strober 1977;Vickery 1979). Employed-wife families appear to substitute one-use goods and purchased services, e.g., meals away from home and child care, for wives' home time (Bellante and Foster 1984), but appear to spend less on at least some durables when wives devote more time to paid labor due to comple-

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Division of Household Work: A Decade Comparison—1967–1977

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The economics of housespousery: An essay on household work

The economics of housespousery: An essay on household work

Predictors of Time Allocation to Food Tasks in Dual‐Earner Families

Impact of Married Women's Employment on Individual Household Member Expenditures for Clothing

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