Husbands’ Participation in Housework and Child Care in India
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...Even if men do participate in household work, they consider certain tasks as feminine chores, such as washing clothes, outside their purview (Luke et al., 2014)....
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...For the qualitative analysis, transcripts and field notes were coded using word processing software (Charmaz, 2006); the main themes included husbands’ overall performance of housework, by specific task, and the explanations given for their degree of involvement....
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...According to this approach, the performance (or nonperformance) of housework is an important means of “doing” or displaying behaviors expected of one’s gender (West & Zimmerman, 1987)....
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..., 1992; Saraff & Srivastava, 2010); therefore, an important question is the extent to which husbands “help” or assist their wives in these routine tasks, if at all (Coltrane, 2000)....
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...…responsibilities for housework and child care in India (Jain & Belsky, 1997; Pant, 2000; Ramu, 1988; Roopnarine et al., 1992; Saraff & Srivastava, 2010); therefore, an important question is the extent to which husbands “help” or assist their wives in these routine tasks, if at all (Coltrane, 2000)....
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...Many sociologists and feminist economists have criticized the bargaining model for its gender neutrality and assumption that women can translate their incomes into decision-making power across all household domains (Agarwal, 1997; Kabeer, 1997; Kantor, 2003; Malhotra & Mather, 1997; Xu & Lai, 2002)....
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...Social scientists have developed bargaining power, or relative resources, theory to explain how access to resources determines decision-making power within households (Agarwal, 1997; Blood & Wolfe, 1960; Malhotra & Mather, 1997; McElroy, 1990)....
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...In these settings, traditional gender norms often set limits on the household domains in which bargaining can occur (Agarwal, 1997)....
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...Most previous research has collapsed housework activities into single measures, such as hours involved in a range of chores in a day or week (e.g., Brines, 1994; Schneider, 2011)....
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...With respect to domestic labor, studies from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have found that as women’s earnings share increases, husbands undertake more housework (Brines, 1994; Evertsson & Nermo, 2004; Kan, 2008; Pinto & Coltrane, 2009)....
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...…from the United States and Australia have documented a curvilinear relationship between earnings share and housework whereby men perform the least domestic labor when women are the main breadwinners (Bittman et al., 2003; Brines, 1994; Evertsson & Nermo, 2004; Greenstein, 2000; Schneider, 2011)....
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...Much of this work supports bargaining, or relative resources, theory, which holds that individuals with greater relative earnings have power to influence decisions within the household, including the distribution of domestic labor (e.g., Brines, 1994; Kan, 2008)....
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...In support of this theory, studies from the United States and Australia have documented a curvilinear relationship between earnings share and housework whereby men perform the least domestic labor when women are the main breadwinners (Bittman et al., 2003; Brines, 1994; Evertsson & Nermo, 2004; Greenstein, 2000; Schneider, 2011)....
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