 Time as a Source of Inequality Within Marriage: Are Husbands More Satisfied With Time for Themselves than Wives?Shelley Phipps, Peter Burton and Lars Osberg Feminist Economics, 2001, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-21 Abstract: Motivated by popular discussions of the "double work day" for women in dualearner households, this paper examines gender differences among such couples in satisfaction with time for self, drawing on microdata from the 1990 Statistics Canada General Social Survey. While most earlier studies of the distribution of well-being within households focus on material goods, differences in access to free time are a potential source of inequity within the family. This paper gives some evidence that women in dual-earner households are more time-stressed than men, apparently as a result of the continued gendered division of housework, despite high levels of paid work by wives. However, total labor supply is not the main predictor of time stress for wives. Hours per week matter more than weeks per year, presumably because much household work cannot be postponed until another week. Keywords: Within-HOUSEHOLD Inequality; Intra-HOUSEHOLD Inequality; Subjective Wellmany Being; Unpaid Work; Time; Dual-EARNER Couples (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:femeco:v:7:y:2001:i:2:p:1-21 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Feminist Economics is currently edited by Diana Strassmann More articles in Feminist Economics from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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