How Money Matters
College, Motherhood, Earnings, and Wives’ Housework
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2347107 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret L Usdansky (Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, corresponding author), Wendy M Parker (0000-0001-6363-5634, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1449-1473 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0192513x11402953 |
| OpenAlex | W2168262015 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 49 |
Using new data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), the authors consider how educational and parental status influence the relationship between wives' relative earnings and the time they devote to housework in a climate of heightened gender egalitarianism and growing similarity between women's and men's time use. The authors capitalize on the large samples in the American Time Use Survey to study four groups of wives whose varying educational and parental statuses strengthen tests of theoretical claims regarding bargaining, gender display, and wives' autonomy. Among wives with children at home and without a college degree, the authors find that relative earnings bear a curvilinear relationship to housework time, supporting predictions derived from exchange and gender display theories. Among wives with children and a college degree, and among wives without children regardless of degree status, relative earnings are unrelated to housework. In contrast, wives' own earnings are inversely related to housework time across all four groups. The authors' analyses suggest that educational and parental contexts jointly shape the relationship between wives' earnings and their housework and the relative importance of bargaining, gender display, and autonomy
Autonomy · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economics · Egalitarianism · Labour economics · Political science · Wage · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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Adult children’s education and older parents’ cognitive health in India
Measures of Relationship Power Dynamics in Romantic Relationships
Legal Recognition of Same‐Sex Relationships
On the Marriageability of Men
Gendered Work Restrictions
Eliminating the gendered division of labor
Keeping occupation front and centre to address the challenges of transcending the individual
Division of Household and Childcare Labor and Relationship Conflict Among Low-Income New Parents
Re-orientation
Impacts of the Covid-19 Lockdown on Gender Inequalities in Time Spent on Paid and Unpaid Work in Singapore
The Division of Child Care, Sexual Intimacy, and Relationship Quality in Couples
Doing What It Takes to Make It Work
Extending theoretical explanations for gendered divisions of care during the Covid-19 pandemic
Work and Family in the Second Decade of the 21st Century
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A Treatise on the Family
Sociological perspectives on social psychology
Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century
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Changing the Division of Household Labor
Maintaining Men's Dominance
Intra‐Household Specialization in Housework in the United States and Denmark
What’s Mine is Yours? The Influence of Male and Female Incomes on Patterns of Household Expenditure
Educational differences in parents’ time with children
An Assessment of Alternative Measures of Time Use
Diverging destinies
Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage
Parental Education and Parental Time with Children
Changing Attitudes toward the Male Breadwinner, Female Homemaker Family Model
Feminist Attitudes and Support for Gender Equality
Gender, Time and Inequality
Bargaining Over Housework
Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor
Replacing Housework in the Service Economy
Becoming Mothers and Fathers
Attitudes Toward Women's Familial Roles
Doing Gender
Gender Ideology Construction
How Involved Is Involved Fathering
Does Parenthood Strengthen a Traditional Household Division of Labor? Evidence From Sweden
Gendered Expectations? Reconsidering Single Fathers' Child-Care Time
Life Course Transitions and Housework
Autonomy, Dependence, or Display? The Relationship Between Married Women's Earnings and Housework
The Persistence of Wives' Income Advantage
The Division of Labor Across the Transition to Parenthood
Research on Household Labor
Change in Gender-Ideology, 1977-1996
Economic Dependence, Gender, and the Division of Labor in the Home
Dependence within families and the division of labor
Are Parents Investing Less in Children? Trends in Mothers' and Fathers' Time with Children
When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work
Economic Dependency, Gender, and the Division of Labor at Home
Married Women's Economic Dependency, 1940-1980
The transformation of US gender role attitudes
Her money, her time
Influences on Gender-Role Attitudes during the Transition to Adulthood
| Citations per year | 1.73 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |