A K L Cheung
Biographic Data
| ID | 52613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A K L Cheung |
| GIVEN NAMES | A K L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheung |
| SIGNATURE | CHEUNG A K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2984-195X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Presumed orientation and performative appeasement: Misidentifying spousal political orientations in the age of political polarization
Emerging literature has begun exploring how within-couple political misalignment in politically polarized societies shapes marital relations. This study introduces the concept of spousal political misidentification, which distinguishes between actual and perceived political misalignment. It enriches our understanding of how political misalignment affects marital relationships beyond overt conflict. Many past studies rely on individual-level data …
Outsourcing domestic work: A double‐edged sword for marital relations among dual‐earner couples
Migration intentions in a politically divided context: The interactive roles of affective polarization and dyadic political attitudes
This study examines migration intentions in a politically divided context, focusing on the interactive roles of individuals’ and the spouses’ affective polarization and political attitudes. Our study uses Hong Kong as a case study to elucidate migration intentions in the context of political polarization and increasing authoritarianism. We investigate how individuals facing the same political conditions exhibit varying inclinations to migrate. Ou…
The Personal is Political: Political Attitudes, Affective Polarization and Fertility Preferences in Hong Kong
This study examines the relationship between political attitudes, affective polarization, and fertility preferences among married couples in Hong Kong. Using dyadic data from a representative household survey (N = 1586 heterosexually married adults), we investigate how individuals’ attitudes toward democracy and levels of affective polarization are associated with their fertility preferences. We also explore the influence of spouses’ political at…
Political efficacy and fertility intentions: A survey experiment study in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore
Employers’ resources and experiences of employing live-in foreign domestic workers
Employing foreign domestic workers (FDWs) has become a common practice for outsourcing domestic labor. There has been a rapid diffusion process of the practice from the families with more resources to families with fewer resources. This study adopts an employment perspective to examine the employers’ subjective experience and the risk of replacing FDWs, and how these are related to the employing families’ economic and informational resources. Ana…
Couples’ housework participation, housework satisfaction and fertility intentions among married couples in Hong Kong
Low total fertility rates have persisted in East Asian societies, with gender inequality at home identified as a significant barrier to women achieving their desired fertility. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the link between housework participation and fertility intentions among married couples in Hong Kong, where the total fertility rate has fallen below 1 since 2020. This study proposes and tests two hypotheses regarding the …
Finishing the “unfinished revolution”: College‐educated mothers' resistance to intensive mothering
Intensive mothering, a classed and gendered practice optimally performed by stay‐at‐home mothers, is a dominant parenting ideology, particularly in developed societies with wide disparities in wealth. Ironically, in these societies, women tend to be well educated and have good employment prospects that are expected to free them from domestic obligations. Facing competing expectations shaped by the institutions of work and the family, how do colle…
Domestic Outsourcing in an Ultra-Low Fertility Context: Employing Live-in Domestic Help and Fertility in Hong Kong
Outsourcing for How Long? Factors and Duration of Employing Foreign Live-in Domestic Helpers
A remarkable rise in outsourcing domestic labor has been well documented, but the scope of the existing studies is limited. This study aims at investigating the factors and duration of using live-in domestic help in Hong Kong. The study also aims at disentangling the cross-sectional patterns in using paid domestic help into two different patterns: differential risks in the transition into the practice and the differential risks in the transition …
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing
This two-stage mixed-method study pulls the literature of domestic outsourcing and intensive parenting together to investigate the role of employing live-in domestic helpers in the time-use patterns of household labor among working parents in Hong Kong. In the first stage, regression models are used to analyze data from a representative household survey of working parents ( N = 791). Regression results show that working parents who hire live-in d…
Couples' self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more
Family policies, social norms and marital fertility decisions: A quasi‐experimental study
Numerous policy recommendations for increasing fertility in societies with ultralow fertility rates have been made, yet their effectiveness has mostly remained unevaluated. Using a multifactorial vignette design that creates hypothetical policy scenarios, this paper seeks to determine the effects of family‐friendly policies and organizational norms on fertility decisions in Hong Kong. Based on a territory‐wide random sample ( N = 1000), we find a…
Re-examining the middle-class thesis: Class profiles of families employing migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong
To what extent is employing migrant domestic workers (MDWs) a middle-class practice in Hong Kong? I drew quantitative data from the Population Census and a representative household survey to test the middle-class thesis. The results show that a significant proportion of the families that currently employ or had ever employed MDWs were not from middle-class backgrounds. As the practice of hiring MDWs spread to families from lower socio-economic ba…
Socioeconomic development and young adults' propensity of living in one-person households: Compositional and contextual effects
The proportion of young adults living in one-person households (OPHs) has increased remarkably worldwide. Recent literature suggests that socioeconomic development established favorable conditions for individuals to live alone. Few studies have yet examine
Parental Academic Involvement in Cross-border marriage, Native and Immigrant Families: The Roles of Family Resources and Parental Expectations
Migration patterns have become more complicated than before. The increase in cross-border marriage has increased the diversity of the student population. A simple distinction between native and immigrant students overly simplifies their diverse backgrounds. Analyzing data from PISA 2012, we attempt to fill the gap in the literature by comparing parental involvement between cross-border marriage, native, and immigrant families in Hong Kong, with a…
Husband-to-wife sexual coercion in cross-border marriage: A relationship power perspective
Despite the proliferation of literature on cross-border marriages, most previous studies have focused on the vulnerability of female marriage migrants due to their immigrant status; few have examined the role of husbands' power motive in their well-being. To fill this gap, this study investigates the roles of household power structure and the husband's power motive in husband-to-wife sexual coercion in cross-border marriages in Hong Kong. We hypo…
The Gendered Division of Household Labor over Parenthood Transitions: A Longitudinal Study in South Korea
Domestic Labor, Attitudes, and Women's Marital Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study in Korea
This study examines how gender and family attitudes moderate the relationship between domestic labor and marital satisfaction in Korea, where the heavy and unequal burden of domestic labor on women intersects with traditional familism and gender ideology. We analyze panel data from the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families ( n = 11,488). Our individual fixed-effect regressions reveal that women's time spent on domestic labor is negativ…
Dissimilar and Disadvantaged: Age Discrepancy, Financial Stress, and Marital Conflict in Cross-Border Marriages
The failure of cross-border marriages has often been attributed to the large age discrepancy between husband and wife, while disadvantage resulted from the selectivity of husbands from low socioeconomic backgrounds has received less attention. Analyzing couple-level household survey data ( N = 871) in Hong Kong, this study compares marital conflict in local and cross-border couples by examining the mediating factors such as age discrepancy and so…
Hiring Domestic Help in Hong Kong: The Role of Gender Attitude and Wives’ Income
The associating factors of hiring domestic help have not been thoroughly studied in a non-Western context. Using household survey data ( N = 974), this article investigates the interactive role of gender attitude and women's income on the decision to hire domestic help in Hong Kong. Some previous studies fall short in finding a significant association between respondents' gender attitudes and the hiring of domestic help, while wives' income is a …
Non-Traditional Wives With Traditional Husbands: Gender Ideology and Husband-to-Wife Physical Violence in Chinese Society
Feminist scholars have argued that husband gender traditionalism is one of the root causes of spousal violence against women. Using couple-level data from Hong Kong ( N = 871 couples), this article argues that a second mechanism-couple gender value mismatch-also explains husband-to-wife physical assault. Our findings show that a husband's gender traditionalism is positively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault only when the husband is…
Single Parenthood, Parental Involvement and Students’ Educational Outcomes in Hong Kong
Analyzing data from the Programme for International Student Assessment Hong Kong 2009 and 2012 (n = 7,669), we examined the differences in socioeconomic characteristics of fathers and mothers and levels of parental involvement between two-parent, single-mother, and single-father families in Hong Kong. We found that parents from single-mother and single-father families fare differently in terms of sociodemographic background and parental involveme…
Temporal-spatial patterns of one-person households in China, 1982-2005
The number of one-person households (OPH) in China has risen over the past few decades, but there are few examinations of the patterns and trends in this rapidly growing family type. The changing composition and regional heterogeneity of Chinese OPH have i
Living Alone: One-person households in Asia
The one-person household (OPH) is the fastest-growing type of household in many regions of the world, but no systematic work on it has been done outside of Europe and North America. This special collection consists of ten articles that examine the living-a
Social Isolation and Spousal Violence: Comparing Female Marriage Migrants With Local Women
This research examined the impact of network participation, social support, and social control on the violence victimization of female marriage migrants by a spouse. Data were from a household survey of 492 cross-border and 379 local married couples in Hong Kong in 2007. The findings indicated that female marriage migrants were more vulnerable to spousal violence and more socially isolated, compared with local women. Husbands of marriage migrants…
Women's Attitudes Toward Family Formation and Life Stage Transitions: A Longitudinal Study in Korea
Although it is well documented that family attitudes become less traditional over cohorts, little is known about how individuals' attitudes change over time. More research also is needed on how the within-individual changes relate to important life stage events such as marriage, childbirth, and transitions in education and work. Evidence is particularly lacking in Asian countries, which have socioeconomic and cultural contexts very different from…
Living Alone: One-person households in Asia
The one-person household (OPH) is the fastest-growing type of household in many regions of the world, but no systematic work on it has been done outside of Europe and North America. This special collection consists of ten articles that examine the living-a
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing
This two-stage mixed-method study pulls the literature of domestic outsourcing and intensive parenting together to investigate the role of employing live-in domestic helpers in the time-use patterns of household labor among working parents in Hong Kong. In the first stage, regression models are used to analyze data from a representative household survey of working parents ( N = 791). Regression results show that working parents who hire live-in d…
Family policies, social norms and marital fertility decisions: A quasi‐experimental study
Numerous policy recommendations for increasing fertility in societies with ultralow fertility rates have been made, yet their effectiveness has mostly remained unevaluated. Using a multifactorial vignette design that creates hypothetical policy scenarios, this paper seeks to determine the effects of family‐friendly policies and organizational norms on fertility decisions in Hong Kong. Based on a territory‐wide random sample ( N = 1000), we find a…
Temporal-spatial patterns of one-person households in China, 1982-2005
The number of one-person households (OPH) in China has risen over the past few decades, but there are few examinations of the patterns and trends in this rapidly growing family type. The changing composition and regional heterogeneity of Chinese OPH have i
Hiring Domestic Help and Family Well-Being in Hong Kong: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis
The outsourcing of household tasks has become an important strategy for couples to avert the conflict between work and family roles. There is an increasing trend of domestic outsourcing, including the use of hired domestic help, in many societies where work-family conflict is prevalent. Despite the increasing popularity of outsourcing domestic tasks, the possible impact of hiring domestic help on family relations remains an important gap in the l…
Dissimilar and Disadvantaged: Age Discrepancy, Financial Stress, and Marital Conflict in Cross-Border Marriages
The failure of cross-border marriages has often been attributed to the large age discrepancy between husband and wife, while disadvantage resulted from the selectivity of husbands from low socioeconomic backgrounds has received less attention. Analyzing couple-level household survey data ( N = 871) in Hong Kong, this study compares marital conflict in local and cross-border couples by examining the mediating factors such as age discrepancy and so…
Hiring Domestic Help in Hong Kong: The Role of Gender Attitude and Wives’ Income
The associating factors of hiring domestic help have not been thoroughly studied in a non-Western context. Using household survey data ( N = 974), this article investigates the interactive role of gender attitude and women's income on the decision to hire domestic help in Hong Kong. Some previous studies fall short in finding a significant association between respondents' gender attitudes and the hiring of domestic help, while wives' income is a …
Non-Traditional Wives With Traditional Husbands: Gender Ideology and Husband-to-Wife Physical Violence in Chinese Society
Feminist scholars have argued that husband gender traditionalism is one of the root causes of spousal violence against women. Using couple-level data from Hong Kong ( N = 871 couples), this article argues that a second mechanism-couple gender value mismatch-also explains husband-to-wife physical assault. Our findings show that a husband's gender traditionalism is positively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault only when the husband is…
The Gendered Division of Household Labor over Parenthood Transitions: A Longitudinal Study in South Korea
Domestic Labor, Attitudes, and Women's Marital Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study in Korea
This study examines how gender and family attitudes moderate the relationship between domestic labor and marital satisfaction in Korea, where the heavy and unequal burden of domestic labor on women intersects with traditional familism and gender ideology. We analyze panel data from the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families ( n = 11,488). Our individual fixed-effect regressions reveal that women's time spent on domestic labor is negativ…
Single Parenthood, Parental Involvement and Students’ Educational Outcomes in Hong Kong
Analyzing data from the Programme for International Student Assessment Hong Kong 2009 and 2012 (n = 7,669), we examined the differences in socioeconomic characteristics of fathers and mothers and levels of parental involvement between two-parent, single-mother, and single-father families in Hong Kong. We found that parents from single-mother and single-father families fare differently in terms of sociodemographic background and parental involveme…
Domestic Outsourcing in an Ultra-Low Fertility Context: Employing Live-in Domestic Help and Fertility in Hong Kong
Re-examining the middle-class thesis: Class profiles of families employing migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong
To what extent is employing migrant domestic workers (MDWs) a middle-class practice in Hong Kong? I drew quantitative data from the Population Census and a representative household survey to test the middle-class thesis. The results show that a significant proportion of the families that currently employ or had ever employed MDWs were not from middle-class backgrounds. As the practice of hiring MDWs spread to families from lower socio-economic ba…
Bring the Subjective Back In: Resource and Husband-to-Wife Physical Assault Among Chinese Couples in Hong Kong
Resource theory constitutes important explanations of spousal violence in culturally diverse societies. This article extends the theory by adding several subjective indicators: husband's financial strain and the couple's appraisal of each other's financial and nonfinancial contributions to family. We examined the role of these subjective dimensions of resource in spousal violence against the backdrop of other predictors, including the husband's a…
Couples’ housework participation, housework satisfaction and fertility intentions among married couples in Hong Kong
Low total fertility rates have persisted in East Asian societies, with gender inequality at home identified as a significant barrier to women achieving their desired fertility. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the link between housework participation and fertility intentions among married couples in Hong Kong, where the total fertility rate has fallen below 1 since 2020. This study proposes and tests two hypotheses regarding the …
Finishing the “unfinished revolution”: College‐educated mothers' resistance to intensive mothering
Intensive mothering, a classed and gendered practice optimally performed by stay‐at‐home mothers, is a dominant parenting ideology, particularly in developed societies with wide disparities in wealth. Ironically, in these societies, women tend to be well educated and have good employment prospects that are expected to free them from domestic obligations. Facing competing expectations shaped by the institutions of work and the family, how do colle…
Outsourcing for How Long? Factors and Duration of Employing Foreign Live-in Domestic Helpers
A remarkable rise in outsourcing domestic labor has been well documented, but the scope of the existing studies is limited. This study aims at investigating the factors and duration of using live-in domestic help in Hong Kong. The study also aims at disentangling the cross-sectional patterns in using paid domestic help into two different patterns: differential risks in the transition into the practice and the differential risks in the transition …
Socioeconomic development and young adults' propensity of living in one-person households: Compositional and contextual effects
The proportion of young adults living in one-person households (OPHs) has increased remarkably worldwide. Recent literature suggests that socioeconomic development established favorable conditions for individuals to live alone. Few studies have yet examine
Couples' self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more
Parental Academic Involvement in Cross-border marriage, Native and Immigrant Families: The Roles of Family Resources and Parental Expectations
Migration patterns have become more complicated than before. The increase in cross-border marriage has increased the diversity of the student population. A simple distinction between native and immigrant students overly simplifies their diverse backgrounds. Analyzing data from PISA 2012, we attempt to fill the gap in the literature by comparing parental involvement between cross-border marriage, native, and immigrant families in Hong Kong, with a…
Husband-to-wife sexual coercion in cross-border marriage: A relationship power perspective
Despite the proliferation of literature on cross-border marriages, most previous studies have focused on the vulnerability of female marriage migrants due to their immigrant status; few have examined the role of husbands' power motive in their well-being. To fill this gap, this study investigates the roles of household power structure and the husband's power motive in husband-to-wife sexual coercion in cross-border marriages in Hong Kong. We hypo…
Social Isolation and Spousal Violence: Comparing Female Marriage Migrants With Local Women
This research examined the impact of network participation, social support, and social control on the violence victimization of female marriage migrants by a spouse. Data were from a household survey of 492 cross-border and 379 local married couples in Hong Kong in 2007. The findings indicated that female marriage migrants were more vulnerable to spousal violence and more socially isolated, compared with local women. Husbands of marriage migrants…
Bring the Subjective Back In: Resource and Husband-to-Wife Physical Assault Among Chinese Couples in Hong Kong
Resource theory constitutes important explanations of spousal violence in culturally diverse societies. This article extends the theory by adding several subjective indicators: husband's financial strain and the couple's appraisal of each other's financial and nonfinancial contributions to family. We examined the role of these subjective dimensions of resource in spousal violence against the backdrop of other predictors, including the husband's a…
Hiring Domestic Help and Family Well-Being in Hong Kong: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis
The outsourcing of household tasks has become an important strategy for couples to avert the conflict between work and family roles. There is an increasing trend of domestic outsourcing, including the use of hired domestic help, in many societies where work-family conflict is prevalent. Despite the increasing popularity of outsourcing domestic tasks, the possible impact of hiring domestic help on family relations remains an important gap in the l…
Temporal-spatial patterns of one-person households in China, 1982-2005
The number of one-person households (OPH) in China has risen over the past few decades, but there are few examinations of the patterns and trends in this rapidly growing family type. The changing composition and regional heterogeneity of Chinese OPH have i
Living Alone: One-person households in Asia
The one-person household (OPH) is the fastest-growing type of household in many regions of the world, but no systematic work on it has been done outside of Europe and North America. This special collection consists of ten articles that examine the living-a
Women's Attitudes Toward Family Formation and Life Stage Transitions: A Longitudinal Study in Korea
Although it is well documented that family attitudes become less traditional over cohorts, little is known about how individuals' attitudes change over time. More research also is needed on how the within-individual changes relate to important life stage events such as marriage, childbirth, and transitions in education and work. Evidence is particularly lacking in Asian countries, which have socioeconomic and cultural contexts very different from…
Non-Traditional Wives With Traditional Husbands: Gender Ideology and Husband-to-Wife Physical Violence in Chinese Society
Feminist scholars have argued that husband gender traditionalism is one of the root causes of spousal violence against women. Using couple-level data from Hong Kong ( N = 871 couples), this article argues that a second mechanism-couple gender value mismatch-also explains husband-to-wife physical assault. Our findings show that a husband's gender traditionalism is positively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault only when the husband is…
Single Parenthood, Parental Involvement and Students’ Educational Outcomes in Hong Kong
Analyzing data from the Programme for International Student Assessment Hong Kong 2009 and 2012 (n = 7,669), we examined the differences in socioeconomic characteristics of fathers and mothers and levels of parental involvement between two-parent, single-mother, and single-father families in Hong Kong. We found that parents from single-mother and single-father families fare differently in terms of sociodemographic background and parental involveme…
Dissimilar and Disadvantaged: Age Discrepancy, Financial Stress, and Marital Conflict in Cross-Border Marriages
The failure of cross-border marriages has often been attributed to the large age discrepancy between husband and wife, while disadvantage resulted from the selectivity of husbands from low socioeconomic backgrounds has received less attention. Analyzing couple-level household survey data ( N = 871) in Hong Kong, this study compares marital conflict in local and cross-border couples by examining the mediating factors such as age discrepancy and so…
Hiring Domestic Help in Hong Kong: The Role of Gender Attitude and Wives’ Income
The associating factors of hiring domestic help have not been thoroughly studied in a non-Western context. Using household survey data ( N = 974), this article investigates the interactive role of gender attitude and women's income on the decision to hire domestic help in Hong Kong. Some previous studies fall short in finding a significant association between respondents' gender attitudes and the hiring of domestic help, while wives' income is a …
Domestic Labor, Attitudes, and Women's Marital Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study in Korea
This study examines how gender and family attitudes moderate the relationship between domestic labor and marital satisfaction in Korea, where the heavy and unequal burden of domestic labor on women intersects with traditional familism and gender ideology. We analyze panel data from the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families ( n = 11,488). Our individual fixed-effect regressions reveal that women's time spent on domestic labor is negativ…
The Gendered Division of Household Labor over Parenthood Transitions: A Longitudinal Study in South Korea
Family policies, social norms and marital fertility decisions: A quasi‐experimental study
Numerous policy recommendations for increasing fertility in societies with ultralow fertility rates have been made, yet their effectiveness has mostly remained unevaluated. Using a multifactorial vignette design that creates hypothetical policy scenarios, this paper seeks to determine the effects of family‐friendly policies and organizational norms on fertility decisions in Hong Kong. Based on a territory‐wide random sample ( N = 1000), we find a…
Re-examining the middle-class thesis: Class profiles of families employing migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong
To what extent is employing migrant domestic workers (MDWs) a middle-class practice in Hong Kong? I drew quantitative data from the Population Census and a representative household survey to test the middle-class thesis. The results show that a significant proportion of the families that currently employ or had ever employed MDWs were not from middle-class backgrounds. As the practice of hiring MDWs spread to families from lower socio-economic ba…
Socioeconomic development and young adults' propensity of living in one-person households: Compositional and contextual effects
The proportion of young adults living in one-person households (OPHs) has increased remarkably worldwide. Recent literature suggests that socioeconomic development established favorable conditions for individuals to live alone. Few studies have yet examine
Parental Academic Involvement in Cross-border marriage, Native and Immigrant Families: The Roles of Family Resources and Parental Expectations
Migration patterns have become more complicated than before. The increase in cross-border marriage has increased the diversity of the student population. A simple distinction between native and immigrant students overly simplifies their diverse backgrounds. Analyzing data from PISA 2012, we attempt to fill the gap in the literature by comparing parental involvement between cross-border marriage, native, and immigrant families in Hong Kong, with a…
Husband-to-wife sexual coercion in cross-border marriage: A relationship power perspective
Despite the proliferation of literature on cross-border marriages, most previous studies have focused on the vulnerability of female marriage migrants due to their immigrant status; few have examined the role of husbands' power motive in their well-being. To fill this gap, this study investigates the roles of household power structure and the husband's power motive in husband-to-wife sexual coercion in cross-border marriages in Hong Kong. We hypo…
Domestic Outsourcing in an Ultra-Low Fertility Context: Employing Live-in Domestic Help and Fertility in Hong Kong
Outsourcing for How Long? Factors and Duration of Employing Foreign Live-in Domestic Helpers
A remarkable rise in outsourcing domestic labor has been well documented, but the scope of the existing studies is limited. This study aims at investigating the factors and duration of using live-in domestic help in Hong Kong. The study also aims at disentangling the cross-sectional patterns in using paid domestic help into two different patterns: differential risks in the transition into the practice and the differential risks in the transition …
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing
This two-stage mixed-method study pulls the literature of domestic outsourcing and intensive parenting together to investigate the role of employing live-in domestic helpers in the time-use patterns of household labor among working parents in Hong Kong. In the first stage, regression models are used to analyze data from a representative household survey of working parents ( N = 791). Regression results show that working parents who hire live-in d…
Couples' self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more
Employers’ resources and experiences of employing live-in foreign domestic workers
Employing foreign domestic workers (FDWs) has become a common practice for outsourcing domestic labor. There has been a rapid diffusion process of the practice from the families with more resources to families with fewer resources. This study adopts an employment perspective to examine the employers’ subjective experience and the risk of replacing FDWs, and how these are related to the employing families’ economic and informational resources. Ana…
Couples’ housework participation, housework satisfaction and fertility intentions among married couples in Hong Kong
Low total fertility rates have persisted in East Asian societies, with gender inequality at home identified as a significant barrier to women achieving their desired fertility. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the link between housework participation and fertility intentions among married couples in Hong Kong, where the total fertility rate has fallen below 1 since 2020. This study proposes and tests two hypotheses regarding the …
Finishing the “unfinished revolution”: College‐educated mothers' resistance to intensive mothering
Intensive mothering, a classed and gendered practice optimally performed by stay‐at‐home mothers, is a dominant parenting ideology, particularly in developed societies with wide disparities in wealth. Ironically, in these societies, women tend to be well educated and have good employment prospects that are expected to free them from domestic obligations. Facing competing expectations shaped by the institutions of work and the family, how do colle…
Outsourcing domestic work: A double‐edged sword for marital relations among dual‐earner couples
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