SOC362H5 Chapter : Trends in women’s and men’s paid work, unpaid work and free time .docx

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Liana sayer: analysis uses nationally representative time diary data from 1965, 1975 and 1998 to examine trends and gender differences in time use, women continue to do more household work than men, men have increased time in core household activities (i. e. cooking, cleaning and child care) If men"s unpaid work has increased significantly while women"s has declined, the historic pattern in which gendered time has perpetuated men"s greater structural and interpersonal power may also be changing: contribution of this research is to investigate with new empirical data whether the relationship between time use and gender ahs changed, to address whether women"s and men"s time use patterns have become more similar and why, extends previous research by examining trends and gender differences in allocation of time to paid work, all types of unpaid work and leisure, rather than focusing on just one domain.

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