An unequal division of housework has been found to be often regarded as fair, which may explain why women still do most household labor. This study extends previous research by also investigating childcare—an increasingly important part labor, is likely have a different meaning than housework. It examines how perceptions fairness for both and childcare are influenced the housework, childcare, p...

Using 2000 U.S. Census data we illustrate the importance of accounting for household specialization in lesbian couples when examining the sexual orientation gap in female labor supply. Specifically, we find the labor supply gap is substantially larger between married women and partnered lesbian women who specialize in market production (primary earners) than between married women and partnered ...

Over the last two decades, the most prominent social and economic changes in the world have been observed in formerly socialist economies. The process, commonly understood as ‘transition’, has gendered consequences and differential implications for men and women. Though much of the research on transitional economies has overlooked the gender dimension, some recent studies on Russia and Central ...

Gender inequality at home continues to constrain gender equality at work. How do the gender disparities in domestic labor that children observe between their parents predict those children's visions for their future roles? The present research examined how parents' behaviors and implicit associations concerning domestic roles, over and above their explicit beliefs, predict their children's futu...

Using data from the National Survey of Children (sample is 89% White, 9% Black, 2% Hispanic or other), this paper examines levels and correlates o f husbands' involvement in traditionally female household chores. Analyses reveal that the vast majority o f wives assume primary responsibility for these daily and non-daily tasks. Only about one-fifih o f husbands are involved fully in these activi...

Joint custody reforms increase the bargaining power of men within marriage and alter the allocation of resources within the household. The empirical evidence suggests that these shifts reinforce the traditional division of household labor, with both positive and negative effects. On the positive side, marriage and fertility rates rise, and male suicides and domestic violence decline. On the neg...