Predictors of conflict over the household division of labor among women employed full-time

Stohs, Joanne Hoven

doi:10.1007/bf01544614

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“…Thus, there seems to be a strong adherence to the social norms, a fact that might also explain why women, generally, do not enter into conflict with their partner because of the division of family tasks (Stohs, 1995). When focusing more specifically on the feeling of justice about spouses' positions in the family, we can observe that the judgment of fairness is generally correlated with respondents' degree of traditionalism and anti-egalitarianism.…”

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Social Norms and the Feeling of Justice about Unequal Family Practices

Poeschl

2007

Soc Just Res

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After briefly retracing the origins of the present day unbalanced division of family work, this paper article summarizes results from three studies conducted with married adults and unmarried young adults from northern Portugal. The data support the idea that (a) unequal family practices do not change because traditional practices are social norms that orientate individuals' behavior; (b) individuals do not comply passively to these social norms but consider that the normative practices are fair; (c) normative family practices are considered to be fair because women, as well as men, seem to gain benefits from traditional family organization. The social consequences for women of the maintenance of normative family practices are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Social Norms and the Feeling of Justice about Unequal Family Practices

Poeschl

2007

Soc Just Res

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“…Within heterosexual families, for instance, gender has been consistently shown as the primary means of allocating household tasks. The women in these families-employed or not-have consistently How Lesbian Family Members Evaluate, Construct, and Maintain "Fairness" 593 maintained primary responsibility for childcare and housework (Coltrane, 2000;Hochschild, 1989;Perry-Jenkins & Folk, 1994;Press & Townsley, 1998;Robinson & Spitze, 1992;Stohs, 1995). Studies find that, on average, wives perform about two times as much housework and childcare as their husbands (Berk, 1985;Coltrane 2000;Hochschild, 1989) and that women perform the most time-consuming and boring tasks (National Survey of Families and Households, 1993).…”

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“Negotiating Fairness”: A Study on How Lesbian Family Members Evaluate, Construct, and Maintain “Fairness” with the Division of Household Labor

Esmail¹

2010

Journal of Homosexuality

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In this article, I examine how dual-earner lesbian families construct and evaluate an equal division of household labor through their perceptions of "fairness." Through 22 interviews of dual-earner lesbian families (a total of 44 subjects), I identify that lesbian partners use social comparisons with heterosexual families with whom they have contact, as well as their former heterosexual and homosexual families as an important link to justify what they believe to be a fair division of household labor. Childhood socialization and parental models, however, were not shown to adequately explain how members of a lesbian family construct a perception of equality concerning household division of labor.

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“…Spouses who hold more comparable perceptions of fairness also report higher marital satisfaction (Dancer & Gilbert, 1993). Wives' perceptions of unfairness also are related to marital conflict (Kluwer et al, 1996; Perry‐Jenkins & Folk, 1994; Stohs, 1995), with those couples having more conventional gender ideology more likely to avoid conflict and experience negative consequences (Kluwer, Heesink, & Van de Vliert, 1997). Finally, dissatisfaction with the household division of labor may be a more important catalyst for change than perceptions of its unfairness.…”

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Research on Household Labor: Modeling and Measuring the Social Embeddedness of Routine Family Work

Coltrane

2000

J of Marriage and Family

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ࡗ Research on Household Labor: Modeling and Measuring the Social Embeddedness of Routine Family Work This article reviews more than 200 scholarly articles and books on household labor published between 1989 and 1999. As a maturing area of study, this body of research has been concerned with understanding and documenting how housework is embedded in complex and shifting social processes relating to the well-being of families, the construction of gender, and the reproduction of society. Major theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions to the study of household labor are summarized, and suggestions for further research are offered. In summary, women have reduced and men have increased slightly their hourly contributions to housework. Although men's relative contributions have increased, women still do at least twice as much routine housework as men. Consistent predictors of sharing include both women's and men's employment, earnings, gender ideology, and life-course issues. More balanced divisions of housework are associated with women perceiving fairness, experiencing less depression, and enjoying higher marital satisfaction.American families are facing complex and contradictory challenges as we embark on the 21st century. Although beliefs about the appropriate roles of men and women in the workplace have undergone substantial shifts in the past several decades,

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Predictors of conflict over the household division of labor among women employed full-time

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

Social Norms and the Feeling of Justice about Unequal Family Practices

Social Norms and the Feeling of Justice about Unequal Family Practices

“Negotiating Fairness”: A Study on How Lesbian Family Members Evaluate, Construct, and Maintain “Fairness” with the Division of Household Labor

Research on Household Labor: Modeling and Measuring the Social Embeddedness of Routine Family Work

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