title: Gender deviance and household work: the role of occupation.
abstract: This article takes a new approach to gender and housework by identifying a new measure of gender deviance--work in gender-atypical occupations--and by arguing that men who do "women's work" and women who do "men's work" in the labor market may seek to neutralize their gender deviance by doing male- and female-typed work at home. Analysis of data from the National Survey of Families and Households and the 2003-7 waves of the American Time Use Survey shows that men who do "women's work" in the market spend more time on male-typed housework relative to men in gender-balanced occupations and their wives spend more time on female-typed housework. Women in gender-atypical occupations also do more female-typed housework than women in gender-balanced occupations. The article provides clearer evidence about the important ways in which cultural conceptions of gender shape and are shaped by economic processes.
authors.affiliation: Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. djschnei@princeton.edu
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006796:Household Work / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009790:Occupations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012380:Role; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D014931:Women, Working / Q000706:statistics & numerical data