abstract: 'This article assesses the relative explanatory value of the

  resource-bargaining perspective and the doing-gender approach for the

  division of housework in the United States and Sweden from the mid-1970s

  to 2000. The data used are the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and

  the Swedish Level of Living Survey. Overall results show that housework

  was truly gendered work in both countries during the entire period. Even

  so, the results indicate that, unlike Swedish women, U.S. women seem to

  increase their time spent in housework when their husbands are to some

  extent economically dependent on them, as if to neutralize the presumed

  gender deviance on the part of their spouses.'
affiliation: 'Evertsson, M (Corresponding Author), Stockholm Univ, Swedish Inst Social
  Res, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.

  Stockholm Univ, Swedish Inst Social Res, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.'
author: Evertsson, M and Nermo, M
author-email: marie.evertsson@sofi.su.se
author_list:
- family: Evertsson
  given: M
- family: Nermo
  given: M
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00092.x
files: []
issn: 0022-2445
journal: JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
keywords: bargaining; economic dependency; gender; housework; relative resources
keywords-plus: 'WOMENS ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY; GENDER INEQUALITY; HOUSEHOLD LABOR;

  HOUSEWORK; ATTITUDES; PARTICIPATION; EMPLOYMENT; WORK; TIME; HOME'
language: English
month: DEC
note: 'Aage Sorensen Memorial Conference, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, MAY,

  2002'
number: '5'
number-of-cited-references: '39'
orcid-numbers: Evertsson, Marie/0000-0001-8218-9342
pages: 1272-1286
papis_id: d0e93fef17c360266d78e87f3a312cc3
ref: Evertsson2004dependencefamilies
times-cited: '181'
title: 'Dependence within families and the division of labor: Comparing Sweden and
  the United States'
type: Article; Proceedings Paper
unique-id: WOS:000225197000015
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '44'
volume: '66'
web-of-science-categories: Family Studies; Sociology
year: '2004'