Increasing husbands' involvement in domestic labor: Issues for therapists

Rasmussen, Kipling S.; Hawkins, Alan J.; Schwab, Kenneth P.

doi:10.1007/bf02196723

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“…Although the ODL-Q has not yet been normed on a representative sample of dual-earner wives, the means and standard deviations provided in this study with a large sample provide an initial way to assess wives' scores on each construct in comparison with other middle-class women. Also, the constructs measured by the ODL-Q, such as effective communication about domestic labor, having ultimate accountability for domestic labor, and responsiveness to personal needs, are important in understanding how wives assess the fairness of family work and are open to educational and therapeutic interventions that can help dual-earner couples (Hawkins et al, 1994; Rasmussen, Hawkins, & Schwab, 1996).…”

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The Orientation Toward Domestic Labor Questionnaire: Exploring dual-earner wives' sense of fairness about family work.

Hawkins¹,

Marshall²,

Allen³

1998

Journal of Family Psychology

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This study explored the psychometric properties of the Orientation Toward Domestic Labor Questionnaire (ODL-Q) with a sample of 622 dual-earner wives. Adequate internal consistency reliability was obtained for most of the constructs in the ODL-Q. In addition, construct validity for the ODL-Q was provided with multiple regression and discriminant analyses of the constructs' relationships to wives' sense of fairness about family work. The ODL-Q scales accounted for 57% of the variance in wives' sense of fairness. Effective communication about domestic labor (expressions of appreciation, sympathetic listening, mutual decision making) was by far the most powerful predictor and discriminator of fairness. Further validity was demonstrated in a cluster analysis identifying 3 groups of dual-earner wives suggested by A. Hochschild's (1989) qualitative study of family work. Implications for the construction of gender through domestic labor are discussed. Family researchers recently have been puzzled by consistent empirical findings that although dual-earner wives do two to three times the amount of domestic work their husbands do, less than one third of wives report the division of daily family work as unfair (

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The Orientation Toward Domestic Labor Questionnaire: Exploring dual-earner wives' sense of fairness about family work.

Hawkins¹,

Marshall²,

Allen³

1998

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…Most theories postulate that women in general, and employed women in particular, will function better and be less depressed if they can shed total responsibility for housework and child care. Therapists and researchers propose various nonthreatening ways to encourage men to pay more attention to housework and specify some of the potential beneficial impacts on marriages and on men's emotional development (Hawkins & Roberts, 1992; Mintz & Mahalik, 1996; Rasmussen, Hawkins, & Schwab, 1996). Others suggest how existing counseling models ignore issues of power and fail to hold men fully accountable for housework and family management (Braverman, 1991).…”

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Research on Household Labor: Modeling and Measuring the Social Embeddedness of Routine Family Work

Coltrane

2000

J of Marriage and Family

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ࡗ Research on Household Labor: Modeling and Measuring the Social Embeddedness of Routine Family Work This article reviews more than 200 scholarly articles and books on household labor published between 1989 and 1999. As a maturing area of study, this body of research has been concerned with understanding and documenting how housework is embedded in complex and shifting social processes relating to the well-being of families, the construction of gender, and the reproduction of society. Major theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions to the study of household labor are summarized, and suggestions for further research are offered. In summary, women have reduced and men have increased slightly their hourly contributions to housework. Although men's relative contributions have increased, women still do at least twice as much routine housework as men. Consistent predictors of sharing include both women's and men's employment, earnings, gender ideology, and life-course issues. More balanced divisions of housework are associated with women perceiving fairness, experiencing less depression, and enjoying higher marital satisfaction.American families are facing complex and contradictory challenges as we embark on the 21st century. Although beliefs about the appropriate roles of men and women in the workplace have undergone substantial shifts in the past several decades,

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“…In a poll of married Americans, 43% reported that the woman makes more decisions at home (26% say the man makes more decisions, and 31% say decisions are made equally; Pew Research Center, 2008). Moreover, research on family dynamics has found that not only do women make the majority of child-care decisions within heterosexual couples, they are often reluctant to give up this role of authority and power in the home to allow fathers to play a greater role in caretaking (Allen & Hawkins, 1999; Cannon, Schoppe-Sullivan, Mangelsdorf, Brown, & Sokolowski, 2008; Fagan & Barnett, 2003; Gaunt, 2008; McBride et al, 2005; Rasmussen, Hawkins, & Schwab, 1996; Schoppe-Sullivan, Brown, Cannon, Mangelsdorf, & Sokolowski, 2008). In this way, women’s role as “maternal gatekeepers,” while providing women with a subjective sense of power and status, also serves to limit paternal involvement and therefore reinforce gender inequalities in caregiving.…”

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When “mom’s the boss”: Control over domestic decision making reduces women’s interest in workplace power

Williams

Chen

2013

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Although men are typically considered to have more power than women, women are more likely than men to be primary decision makers in the household domain. We argue that the portrayal of women’s traditional role as representing a form of power, albeit limited in scope, is widespread in popular culture, and that this power is perceived as desirable and providing a subjective sense of control (Study 1). Yet power over household decision making may also function to reduce women’s objections to a status quo in which they have less power overall, outside their traditional role. Two experiments (Studies 2 and 3) showed that power over household decisions (but not mere domestic tasks) reduced women’s interest in achieving power in the workplace. Men’s interest in workplace power, on the other hand, was unaffected by the degree to which they wielded power at home.

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Increasing husbands' involvement in domestic labor: Issues for therapists

Cited by 5 publications

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The Orientation Toward Domestic Labor Questionnaire: Exploring dual-earner wives' sense of fairness about family work.

The Orientation Toward Domestic Labor Questionnaire: Exploring dual-earner wives' sense of fairness about family work.

Research on Household Labor: Modeling and Measuring the Social Embeddedness of Routine Family Work

When “mom’s the boss”: Control over domestic decision making reduces women’s interest in workplace power

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