Gaunt, Ruth and Bouknik, Shalom (2012) Exploring the division of household labor outside the family context: utilizing resources for doing gender. Community, Work & Family, 15 (2). pp. 189-208. ISSN 1366-8803
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This study tests alternative theoretical models of the division of household labor within a non-familial context of men and women operating homes for autistic children and adults. This context makes it possible to disentangle overlapping hypotheses that stem from competing models. A sample of 128 staff members completed extensive questionnaires. The analyses yielded considerably different patterns of results for men and women. The results for the men provided support for the relative resources model, showing that men’s contributions to household labor decreased as their resources increased. The results for the women provided support for the human capital model, showing that women’s contributions increased as their resources increased. The gender construction approach may account for these gender differences in the determinants of involvement, suggesting that men and women utilize their resources for "doing gender".
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| Additional Information: | This study tests alternative theoretical models of the division of household labor within a non-familial context of men and women operating homes for autistic children and adults. This context makes it possible to disentangle overlapping hypotheses that stem from competing models. A sample of 128 staff members completed extensive questionnaires. The analyses yielded considerably different patterns of results for men and women. The results for the men provided support for the relative resources model, showing that men’s contributions to household labor decreased as their resources increased. The results for the women provided support for the human capital model, showing that women’s contributions increased as their resources increased. The gender construction approach may account for these gender differences in the determinants of involvement, suggesting that men and women utilize their resources for "doing gender". |
| Keywords: | child care, division of labor, household labor, housework |
| Subjects: | C Biological Sciences > C800 Psychology |
| Divisions: | College of Social Sciences > Faculty of Health & Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Ruth Gaunt |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2012 22:22 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2012 22:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/6391 |
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