abstract: 'Using the 1996 Indiana Quality of Employment Survey, we reexamine gender

  and class differences in the effects of domestic work and family

  characteristics on earnings. We expand upon Coverman''s (1983) original

  model by including several new measures. We find that the gender gap in

  domestic work has narrowed considerably, not because men are doing more

  but because women are doing less than they were twenty years ago.

  Women''s earnings suffer more than men''s from time spent on domestic work

  and generally benefit more from partners'' domestic help. Women''s

  earnings are more advantaged than men''s by having preschool children,

  and men''s earnings are more advantaged when their partner works. We find

  significant class differences in the effects of domestic work between

  working-class and non-working class women and in the effects of family

  characteristics between working-class and non-working class men.

  Non-working class women''s earnings suffer more from time they put into

  domestic work, but their earnings generally benefit more from partners''

  or outside domestic help. Working-class men''s earnings are more

  advantaged by having school-age children and more disadvantaged by

  having progressive gender ideologies. Non-working class men''s earnings

  benefit more when their partners hold a job but suffer more as their

  partners work more hours.'
affiliation: 'Wallace, M (Corresponding Author), Univ Connecticut, Dept Sociol, Unit
  2068, 344 Mansfield Rd, Storrs, CT 06269 USA.

  Univ Connecticut, Dept Sociol, Unit 2068, Storrs, CT 06269 USA.

  Rhodes Coll, Memphis, TN 38112 USA.'
author: Shirley, C and Wallace, M
author-email: michael.wallace@uconn.edu
author_list:
- family: Shirley
  given: C
- family: Wallace
  given: M
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2004.tb02309.x
eissn: 1533-8525
files: []
issn: 0038-0253
journal: SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY
keywords-plus: 'DIVISION-OF-LABOR; HOUSEHOLD LABOR; UNITED-STATES; CHILD-CARE; HUSBANDS

  PARTICIPATION; HOUSEWORK; TIME; EMPLOYMENT; WAGES; WIVES'
language: English
month: FAL
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '64'
pages: 663-690
papis_id: f15c73f03d9969a8c8ca36a73b7293a7
ref: Shirley2004domesticwork
times-cited: '12'
title: 'Domestic work, family characteristics, and earnings: Reexamining gender and
  class differences'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000227118600003
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usage-count-since-2013: '14'
volume: '45'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2004'