Autonomy, Dependence, or Display? The Relationship Between Married Women’s Earnings and Housework

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Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms (2019, background): “Although women’s housework hours have declined in recent years, women continue to do more housework in most households, even those where women’s earnings are the same as or greater than their husbands (Greenstein 2000; Gupta 2007; Sayer 2016; Schneider 2011; Tichenor 2005).”
Sharing the load? Partners’ relative earnings and the division of domestic labour (2015, background): “In other words, as a woman earns more, she does less housework: ‘her money, her time’ or the ‘autonomy hypothesis’ (see also Gupta, 2007: 402).”
Who Does More Housework: Rich or Poor? (2011, background): “It is clear, however, that my general argument is consistent with recent contributions by Gupta (2006, 2007), who suggests that the curvilinearities may result from the fact that women with high relative incomes are often women with low absolute incomes, which leaves them little leeway to buy their…”
Negotiating Domestic Labor: Women's Earnings and Housework Time in Australia (2012, background): “…according to this approach, the performance of housework affirms women’s identity as feminine, whereas not doing housework affirms men’s identity as masculine (Sanjiv Gupta 1999; Bittman et al. 2003; Man Yee Kan 2008; Almudena Sevilla-Sanz, Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, and Cristina Fernández 2010).”