abstract: 'In most industrial countries women earn less in employment than men.

  This paper investigates the reasons for this fact. Specifically it

  considers in detail the relationship between domestic labour and gender

  inequalities in income. Using evidence from Australia the paper explores

  the impact on earnings of both responsibility for domestic labour and

  time spent on domestic labour. Earlier research suggested that

  responsibility for domestic labour is a greater constraint on women''s

  position in paid labour than the actual time spent on it. The paper also

  seeks to discover whether the relationship between the housework and

  paid labour is qualitatively and quantitatively different for men and

  women. Using regression analysis the paper provides empirical evidence

  about these relations and argues that gender inequities in wages are

  based, at least in part, on the structure of the household system.

  Policies aimed at reducing the male-female wage gap will need to take

  account of this.'
author: BAXTER, J
author_list:
- family: BAXTER
  given: J
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0950017092006002005
files: []
issn: 0950-0170
journal: WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY
keywords-plus: GENDER; WOMEN; STRATIFICATION; SEXISM
language: English
month: JUN
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '44'
orcid-numbers: Baxter, Janeen H/0000-0002-8723-9000
pages: 229-249
papis_id: d1f4e31dbfae89823274e1eef50736b1
ref: Baxter1992domesticlabor
researcherid-numbers: Baxter, Janeen H/A-6793-2013
times-cited: '21'
title: DOMESTIC LABOR AND INCOME INEQUALITY
type: article
unique-id: WOS:A1992HW58000004
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '12'
volume: '6'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Industrial Relations \& Labor; Sociology
year: '1992'