abstract: 'As a result of the increasing labor force participation of mothers, this

  article questions how two-parent households divide the housework

  activities of caring, cooking and cleaning. Therefore three types of

  couples with different labor force participations were formed:

  Dual-earner couples, couples with additional female income and

  male-breadwinner couples. The time use for the mentioned activities was

  examined with a secondary analysis based on the German representative

  time use surveys of 2012/2013 and 2001/2002. The analysis showed that

  fulltime mothers spent the lowest amount of time for caring, cooking and

  cleaning. However, unemployed mothers spent the most time for these

  activities. Within a decade - from 2001/2002 to 2012/2013 - all mothers

  have reduced their time spent on household activities. Meanwhile, all

  parents in 2012/2013 take noticeably more time for child care.

  Regardless of the mother''s labor force participation, mothers still

  spent more time for caring, cooking and cleaning, especially on

  weekdays. Additionally, the everyday housework is divided by gender.

  Only on weekends, couples with employed mothers shared the care-work

  almost egalitarian.'
affiliation: 'Klunder, N (Corresponding Author), Justus Liebig Univ Giessen, Inst
  Wirtschaftslehre Haushalts \& Verbrauchsforsc, Bismarckstr 37, D-35390 Giessen,
  Germany.

  Kluender, Nina; Meier-Graewe, Uta, Justus Liebig Univ Giessen, Inst Wirtschaftslehre
  Haushalts \& Verbrauchsforsc, Bismarckstr 37, D-35390 Giessen, Germany.'
author: Kluender, Nina and Meier-Graewe, Uta
author-email: 'nina.kluender@haushalt.uni-giessen.de

  uta.meier-graewe@haushalt.uni-giessen.de'
author_list:
- family: Kluender
  given: Nina
- family: Meier-Graewe
  given: Uta
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.3224/zff.v30i1.02
eissn: 2196-2154
files: []
issn: 1437-2940
journal: ZEITSCHRIFTE FUR FAMILIENFORSCHUNG-JOURNAL OF FAMILY RESEARCH
keywords: 'time use; parental labor-force participation; child care; cooking and

  meal preparation; cleaning; doing the laundry'
keywords-plus: 'DIVISION-OF-LABOR; DOMESTIC WORK; GENDER INEQUALITY; PARENTAL LEAVE;

  HOUSEWORK; FATHERS; COUPLES; CHILDBIRTH; PAID; CARE'
language: German
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '75'
pages: 9-28
papis_id: 2becb11a45c8f67549968c3da06b4d07
ref: Kluender2018caringcooking
times-cited: '7'
title: Caring, cooking, cleaning - Representative time use patterns in two-parent
  households
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000464923200003
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '3'
volume: '30'
web-of-science-categories: Family Studies
year: '2018'