When Wives Get Sick

Gender Role Attitudes, Marital Happiness, and Husbands' Contribution to Household Labor

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2366676
AutoresSusan Allen (0000-0002-9150-3898, John Brown University), Susan M Allen (Brown University), Pamela S Webster (University of Rhode Island)
Ano2001
Volume15
Fascículo6
Páginas898-916
Data de publicação2001-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGender & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/089124301015006007
OpenAlexW2150643506
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas32

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