SOC366H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Household Division, Human Capital
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Inputs-earning, outcome-who is doing the housework and how it is divided. Hypothesis: recent increases in the earnings levels of wives should have produced proportional decreases in the amo9unt of housework wives do. Association between money and housework, as women make more money, they have more bargaining power and less housework. Because women earn less than men, women do more housework. The model is very economic and based the rational individual. Focus is on how much time you have. Choice based model, women invest less in human capital and demanding jobs to maximize inputs. Argues that time is implicit supplies, only have certain amount of energy. Paid work and childcare requires enormous amount of energy. more boundaries of specializing in just one sphere. Problem: because of the fixed time energy component, women should spend their energy and time devoted to housework, men into work. Having tow individuals specializing in two different thing, more outcomes.
