When Wives Get Sick
Gender Role Attitudes, Marital Happiness, and Husbands' Contribution to Household Labor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2366676 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Allen (0000-0002-9150-3898, John Brown University), Susan M Allen (Brown University), Pamela S Webster (University of Rhode Island) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 898-916 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089124301015006007 |
| OpenAlex | W2150643506 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article examines factors related to husbands' contribution to housework when their wives become newly impaired. Data are from a sample of 319 married couples who participated in the National Survey of Families and Households, and in which wives developed physical limitations between baseline and five-year follow-up interviews. Using ordinary least squares regression, we found that husbands who have egalitarian attitudes toward marital roles and are happy in their marriage at baseline do more housework at follow-up than husbands who are traditional and/or are less happy. Given the slow rate of change in household division of labor, the lack of public policies to support people with impairment and family caregiving disproportionately burdens women
Demographic economics · Division of labour · Economics · Ordinary least squares · Political science · Sociology · Survey data collection · Demography · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |