Households and work in their economic contexts: State-level variations in gendered housework performance before, during, and after the great recession

Patterns of housework performance in the United States before, during, and after the Great Recession

“…They found, among other things, that the Recession did not reduce the gender disparity in the performance of housework (Berik and Kongar, 2013 ). This is consistent with other findings, where men's time on housework relative to women's was both less variable and more responsive to external forces (Khitarishvili and Kim, 2014 ), even as women performed less housework and men performed more after the Recession relative to the few years prior to the Recession (Davis and Greenstein, 2020 ).…”

Changes in Daily Occupations Patterns, Optimism, and Positive Affect During COVID-19 Lockdown

“…Moreover, mothers-even those who earned most of the family income -did almost twice as much housework as fathers during the COVID-19 pandemic (Ruppanner et al, 2020). In another time of adversity, the U.S. recession of 2007-2009, Davis and Greenstein (2020) found that although men's housework hours increased and women's decreased, women remained primarily responsible for managing and performing domestic labor. An explanation for the gender differences can be presented through the challenge of the work-family balance that escalates when families have little support (Fisher et al, 2020).…”

Special issue: Illuminating occupations at the heart of social problems

“…The next two articles are concerned with the topic of migration. Previous special issues of the Journal of Occupational Science have been dedicated to furthering understandings of occupation among immigrants and refugees; however, the work by Mayne- Davis et al (2020) and Delaisse and Huot (2020) challenge researchers to consider 'how' choice of methodology can shed new light on better understanding this social issue. Mayne-Davis et al undertook a critical discourse analysis of Australian newspapers with the aim of exposing and challenging discourses that construct and shape the occupational possibilities for refugees and asylum seekers within the Australian context.…”

“…Gender inequity is a long-standing social issue, the implications of which can be both revealed, and reproduced, through various dimensions of occupation. Davis and Greenstein (2020), from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University, engage with occupational science scholarship in their analysis of data addressing housework performance and gender from the American Time Use Study. Using the Great Recession as a time point marked by significant economic and labour force participation shifts, they address how economic conditions were associated within changes in time allocated to housework by both genders and also explored whether changes were associated with state level differences in employment opportunities and social policies.…”