SYG-1000 Lecture 37: syg lec 37
Husad’s Houseork
This pattern (concave association) is generally prevalent among married men in all income
groups.
Circumstances that have a particularly strong effect on making dependent husbands resist
doing housework are...
Men in low income households
Men who are dependent as a result of long term unemployment, or prolonged
joblessness
Women & Housework: Strikingly Linear Negative Relationship between providership &
housework time. Graph 10
Wies’ Houseork
As wives transition into proverdership roles they reduce their housework time.
Some modest evidence for gender display by some women, but it is not statistically significant.
Whih theories eplais ies’ ad husads’ houseork tie alloatio?
Men – As they become more dependent on their wives they reduce their housework time
Women – As they become the provider they reduce their housework time
So which theory is validated?
Economic theory
Gender display theory
Dependency theory
Different theories (processes), rather than the sae theor, eplais ies’ ad husads’
housework time allocation:
Married women & men respond quite differently to providership & dependency
KEY!!!!!
***Wives’ response is consistent with dependency theory: the more dependent they are on
their husad’s ioe the more housework they do and the converse
***Husbands’ response is consistent with gender display theory: the more dependent they are
o their ife’s ioe the less housework they do
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Document Summary
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