Abstract

JABLONSKI, Bernardo. The division of household labor between men and women in everyday marriage life. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2010, vol.30, n.2, pp. 262-275. ISSN 1414-9893.

The current article investigates how housework negotiations occur inside the home, due to the new demands that emerged with the women's lib movement and the increase of women in labor-force participation. We evaluated attitudes and behaviors regarding several topics in a couple's life by interviewing 20 heterosexual middle-class couples, with ages between 30-40 years, with at least 5 years of marriage and at least 1 child. Among our major results, we highlight the fact that despite the existence of a double working schedule and the difficulties expressed by men in sharing household chores in an egalitarian fashion - which greatest weight relies upon women (caring for the house and the children, shopping, organizing, doing laundry, ironing, etc.) - we did not observe, as could be expected, a great increase in conflicts in marital relationship.

Keywords : Gender; Attitudes; Housework; Marriage.

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