The Dilemma of Housework: A Feminist Response to Gottman, Napier, and Pittman

Braverman, Lois

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1991.tb00859.x

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“…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).…”

Section: Theoretical Developments In the Study Of Household Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Theoretical Developments In the Study Of Household Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Coltrane

2000

J of Marriage and Family

1,401

1,493

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“…Parent task preference/desirability is as problematic a basis for family work distribution as parent task competency. Braverman (1991) would agree wholeheartedly with Gerson's (1993) point that fathers who are "mothers' helpers" would utilize parent task preference as a method to escape responsibility for undesirable family work. Gerson notes that "mothers' helpers" explain that they do less housework because their wives have higher cleaning standards and that cleanliness is a higher priority to mothers.…”

Section: The Family Contextmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…This still leaves mothers burdened with the responsibility for family work supervision. Braverman (1991) indicated that mothers had to ask fathers to help more because fathers' increased participation in the family labor may be on their own terms and may still result in mothers having to manage when fathers choose not to contribute. Thus, the family work distribution basis of parent task preference is often clearly operating even when adoptive mothers request more help from adoptive fathers.…”

Section: The Family Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It also demonstrates again how these fathers show commitment to the adoptive placement. Even Braverman (1991) who is usuallyskeptical about fathers' stating that they are willing to help out more would be impressed by these fathers' accepting more responsibility for some of the family tasks. This would be a prime example of a successful redistribution of family labor between parents.…”

Section: The Family Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Feree found employed mothers willing to help to ease the burden of economic provision responsibilities on fathers though fathers have been reluctant to help significantly more with the household labor. Similarly, Braverman (1991) indicated that employed adoptive mothers being held primarily responsible for household labor is another instance of power dynamics operating these marital relations. It is probable that childcare labor is more desirable than housework and therefore adoptive fathers are choosing to do less housework and requiring their wives to do more.…”

Section: The Family Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Increasing husbands' involvement in domestic labor: Issues for therapists

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Hawkins

Schwab³

1996

Contemp Fam Ther

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As a result of the dramatic increase in women's participation in the work force, more relationship therapists are seeing couples who are dissatisfied with how domestic labor is divided in their homes. Although, this issue may seem therapeutically straightforward, there are many aspects which make its renegotiation surprisingly problematic and complex. This article is an effort to delineate some of these issues such as engaging men in therapy, exploring emotional issues connected with housework, and the mechanism of gatekeeping. Also included is a therapeutic framework for addressing client concerns about domestic responsibilities. KEY WORDS: family therapy; domestic labor; husband involvement; dual-income couples. The past two decades have witnessed widespread changes in familial roles, evidenced most prominently, perhaps, by the substantial increase in the percentage of married mothers in the work force. Despite this, research shows that wives are still performing the great bulk of domestic labor (

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The Dilemma of Housework: A Feminist Response to Gottman, Napier, and Pittman

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

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

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

How dual-earner adoptive couples distribute family labor responsibilities in special-needs adoptive placements

Increasing husbands' involvement in domestic labor: Issues for therapists

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