{"id":3073,"date":"2017-01-07T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T07:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2024-10-26T18:33:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T17:33:44","slug":"gendered-patterns-housework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/gendered-patterns-housework\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered patterns of housework persist even when the mother is the breadwinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gendered patterns of housework persist between full-time breadwinning mothers and full-time breadwinning fathers. Policy makers promoting gender equality should take into account the pervasive nature of gendered expectations for parents, even when they adopt nontraditional roles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/sociology\/people\/chesley-noelle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noelle Chesley<\/a> at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found in a recent study that mothers who work longer hours reduce the time they spend on workday childcare less than fathers who work longer hours do. Chesley studied data from the 2008-2012 American Time Use Survey.<\/p>\n<p>Breadwinning mothers also do more housework and childcare on their days off than breadwinning fathers do. Indeed, on days off, breadwinning mothers do as much housework and childcare as at-home mothers do; breadwinning fathers do less of both than their at-home counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at-home mothers <a href=\"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/girls-housework-boys\/\">do more housework<\/a> and spend more time with their children than at-home fathers do, and the types of housework each does still tends to involve gender stereotypical male and female activities.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the status quo is being disrupted. Evidence is growing that breadwinning mothers are starting to take their work and career planning more seriously and at-home fathers are doing more stereotypically female housework tasks than breadwinning fathers do, even on days off.<\/p>\n<div class=\"retrofit-references\">\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 1.8em;\"><em> Chesley N &amp; Flood S (2016), <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jomf.12376\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Signs of change? At-home and breadwinner parents\u2019 housework and child-care time<\/a>, Journal of Marriage and Family<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breadwinning mothers do more housework and childcare on their days off than breadwinning fathers do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773],"tags":[35,1283,329,36,41],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21539,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/21539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}