title: The influence of gender, age, education and household size on meal preparation and food shopping responsibilities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the extent to which the gendered division of labour persists within households in the USA in regard to meal planning/preparation and food shopping activities.
  
  
  METHODS
  Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data.
  
  
  METHODS
  2007-2008 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sub-sample of 3195 adults at least 20 years old who had a spouse or partner.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analyses revealed that the majority of women and men reported they shared in both meal planning/preparing and food shopping activities (meal planning/preparation: women 54 % and men 56 %; food shopping: women 60 % and men 57 %). Results from multinomial logistic regression analyses indicated that, compared with men, women were more likely to take primary responsibility than to share this responsibility and less likely to report having no responsibility for these tasks. Gender differences were observed for age/cohort, education and household size.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study may have implications for public health nutritional initiatives and the well-being of families in the USA.
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Sociology,University of Alabama at Birmingham,Birmingham,AL,USA.
authors.forename: Lee A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Flagg
authors.affiliation: 2Department of Health Care Organization and Policy,University of Alabama at Birmingham,Birmingham,AL,USA.
authors.forename: Bisakha
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sen
authors.affiliation: 2Department of Health Care Organization and Policy,University of Alabama at Birmingham,Birmingham,AL,USA.
authors.forename: Meredith
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kilgore
authors.affiliation: 3Departments of Medicine and Health Care Organization and Policy,University of Alabama at Birmingham,CH19 218F,1720 2nd Avenue South,Birmingham,AL 35294-1152,USA.
authors.forename: Julie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Locher
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003296:Cooking; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005502:Food / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D062407:Meals; D008875:Middle Aged; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult