Housework Bianchi Flashcards
Stalled revolution at home
Dramatic drop due to women entering the labor field in large numbers
What happens with childcare
women - gone up slowly
men are spending more time in child care as well
Intensive motherly pressure or now called Intensive parenting pressure
If you have children you don’t just drive them to events or plop them infront of the tv, you have to be highly engaged in what your child does.
Women were feeling this pressure – to be good moms they had to constantly be engaged with their children – same with dads
Dads are less involved in house work but more involved in childcare
The ratio of married moms to married dad’s time
Decline In housework – use of technology (dishwasher, washing machine)
Standards have changed
Higher standards before because the wives were at home for most of the time
Who WAS doing the housework?
Time-diary data and self report data from the 80s and 90s showed an overall decline in the hours spent in housework (excluding childcare)
Decline mainly due to women cutting their hours in half since the 1960s as they are spending more time in paid labour market, getting married later and few kids
Men’s has almost doubled so that they are responsible for one third of housework
Greater reliance of the service sector - paying others to do work for us.
Who IS doing the housework
Since 1965 to 2010, women’s housework declined and men’s housework time more than doubled with changes primarily in core tasks
By 2010, women do 1.6 times the amount of housework as men (wives 1.7 times the amount of husbands, and mothers 1.9 times the amount of fathers)
Since 1965, childcare time declined then increased for both, with the overall gap in 2010 showing moms spend 1.9 times more time in childcare than dads
How did author’s view change?
Overall total work hours (including time in paid work, housework and childcare) for men and women are similar but remains gender specialized
Contextual factors also important that may differ across countries
More to understanding gender inequality than analysis of housework also need to understand gendered care
Ratios are getting closer, the amount of time men and women spend in both domains (paid and unpaid) the gap is closing.
What are the promising directions for the future
- More cross-cultural studies
- more attention to fathers
- more research during periods change
