abstract: 'This paper asks whether maternal employment has a lasting influence on

  the division of household labor for married women and men. Employing

  multi-level models with 2002 ISSP survey data for 31 countries, we test

  the lagged accommodation hypothesis that a long societal history of

  maternal employment contributes to more egalitarian household

  arrangements. Our results find that living in a country with a legacy of

  high maternal employment is positively associated with housework

  task-sharing, even controlling for the personal socialization experience

  of growing up with a mother who worked for pay. In formerly socialist

  countries, however, there is less gender parity in housework than

  predicted by the high historical level of maternal employment. (C) 2012

  Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Treas, J (Corresponding Author), Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Sociol, Sch
  Social Sci, SSPA 3151, Irvine, CA 92697 USA.

  Treas, Judith, Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Sociol, Sch Social Sci, Irvine, CA 92697
  USA.

  Tai, Tsui-o, Univ Queensland, Inst Social Res, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.'
author: Treas, Judith and Tai, Tsui-o
author-email: 'jktreas@uci.edu

  t.tai@uq.edu.au'
author_list:
- family: Treas
  given: Judith
- family: Tai
  given: Tsui-o
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.01.008
eissn: 1096-0317
files: []
issn: 0049-089X
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
keywords: 'Division of household labor; Maternal employment; Cross-national

  research; Gender; Social change; Institutionalization; Multi-level

  models; Eastern Europe'
keywords-plus: 'HOUSEHOLD LABOR; GENDER INEQUALITY; ROLE ATTITUDES; WELFARE-STATE;

  DIVISION; TIME; EXPECTATIONS; EARNINGS; POLICIES; WIVES'
language: English
month: JUL
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '70'
pages: 833-842
papis_id: 7d463c4a1304c84edd7ece9996618d9d
ref: Treas2012apronstrings
times-cited: '25'
title: 'Apron strings of working mothers: Maternal employment and housework in cross-national
  perspective'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000305875600011
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '24'
volume: '41'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2012'