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ERIC Number: EJ932411
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Aug
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-2445
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Market Earnings and Household Work: New Tests of Gender Performance Theory
Schneider, Daniel
Journal of Marriage and Family, v73 n4 p845-860 Aug 2011
I examine the contested finding that men and women engage in gender performance through housework. Prior scholarship has found a curvilinear association between earnings share and housework that has been interpreted as evidence of gender performance. I reexamine these findings by conducting the first such analysis to use high-quality time diary data for a U.S. sample in the contemporary period. Drawing on data on 11,868 married women and 10,770 married men in the American Time Use Survey (2003-2007), I find no evidence that married men "do gender" through housework. I do, however, find strong evidence of gender performance among women as evidenced by a curvilinear association between earnings share and women's housework time.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States
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