Gender, Domestic Labor Time, and Wage Inequality

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Bibliography: Coverman, S., 1983. Gender, Domestic Labor Time, and Wage Inequality. American Sociological Review 48, 623. https://doi.org/10.2307/2094923

Authors:: Shelley Coverman

Collections:: Gender Scale

First-page: 623

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& This paper explores the relationship between domestic labor and wage labor by estimating the relative influence of hours spent in domestic labor (e.g., housework and child care) on women's and men's wages. I (p. 623)
& Sex-role attitudes. The QES has two questions on sex-role attitudes. The first asks "How much do you agree or disagree that it is much better for everyone involved if the man earns the money and the woman takes care of the home and children?" The second asks "How much do you agree or disagree that a mother who works outside the home can have just as good a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work?" The five response categories fell on a continuum from one (strongly disagree) to five (strongly agree) and were recoded so that a high score reflects nontraditional attitudes or what has been referred to as "sex role modernity" (Scanzoni, 1975). Because these two measures are moderately correlated (r=.51 for women and .44 for men), including both in the same equation confounded their effects. In order to minimize multicollinearity as well as to increase the reliability of this index, the two variables were added together and treated as a single measure of sex-role attitudes (p. 627)