Event Title
Poster: Do Live Alones "Do" Gendered Housework? Resources, Ideology, and Time
Location
Moakley Atrium
Start Time
14-5-2014 4:00 PM
End Time
14-5-2014 5:00 PM
Description
Research on housework has focused on gender differences in the amount and type of household tasks completed by coupled men and women, finding that, in coupled households, women do more housework than men overall and these tasks are segmented into “female-stereotypic” (routine) and “male-stereotypic” (intermittent) tasks. But does gender continue to predict time spent on and the nature of household tasks for people living alone? This paper addresses whether adults living alone continue to “do gender” in their housework even when not influenced by the time, resources, and ideology of a partner. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), I find that men and women living alone continue to complete different amounts and kinds of household work. Women living alone spend about 15 more minutes on total household work, 25 more minutes on routine tasks and 4 fewer minutes on intermittent tasks per day than their male counterparts.
Poster: Do Live Alones "Do" Gendered Housework? Resources, Ideology, and Time
Moakley Atrium
Research on housework has focused on gender differences in the amount and type of household tasks completed by coupled men and women, finding that, in coupled households, women do more housework than men overall and these tasks are segmented into “female-stereotypic” (routine) and “male-stereotypic” (intermittent) tasks. But does gender continue to predict time spent on and the nature of household tasks for people living alone? This paper addresses whether adults living alone continue to “do gender” in their housework even when not influenced by the time, resources, and ideology of a partner. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), I find that men and women living alone continue to complete different amounts and kinds of household work. Women living alone spend about 15 more minutes on total household work, 25 more minutes on routine tasks and 4 fewer minutes on intermittent tasks per day than their male counterparts.