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Time Co-Ordination, the Domestic Division of Labour and Affective Relations: Time Use and the Enjoyment of Activities within Couples
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In this paper, the time-use of diaries of a sample of couples are used to explore the relationship between partners' daily pattern of activities and their enjoyment of those activities.Abstract:
In this paper the time-use of diaries of a sample of couples are used to explore the relationship between partners' daily pattern of activities and their enjoyment of those activities. By analysing...read more
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The joys and justice of housework
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated husbands' and wives' perceptions of fairness of the domestic division of labour using data from a recent national Australian survey, and found that 59 per cent of women report that the division of labor in the home is fair even though they also report responsibility for the bulk of the work.
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Work‐life balance – the sources of the contemporary problem and the probable outcomes: A review and interpretation of the evidence
TL;DR: Work-life balance has become a major issue, and the likely outcomes of the widespread dissatisfaction with current work schedules have been discussed in this paper, where international evidence on hours of work and time use is reviewed and the academic literature on employees' attitudes towards their hours of working, and perceptions and complaints about work-life imbalances.
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Time Waits for no (Wo)Man: An Investigation of the Gendered Experience of Domestic Time:
TL;DR: This paper studied the time spent by women and men in different domestic tasks and found that women spent more than twice as much time in domestic tasks as men in various domestic tasks compared to men.
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Classand Gender-based Working Time? Time Poverty and the Division of Domestic Labour
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors advocate an explicitly class as well as gender-based approach to the study of couples' working time, connecting two major research themes; variation in time poverty and the organization of the domestic division of labour.
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Nobody to Play with? The Implications of Leisure Coordination
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time-use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household.
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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
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Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society
TL;DR: The Silent Revolution as discussed by the authors examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to having children and families, and in attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality.
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The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
TL;DR: Hochschild as mentioned in this paper found that men share housework equally with their wives in only twenty percent of dual-career families, and that women tend to suffer from chronic exhaustion, low sex drive, and more frequent illness as a result.
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Emotional labour: skill and work in the social regulation of feelings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define emotional labour as the labour involved in dealing with other peoples' feelings, a core component of which is the regulation of emotions, and suggest that emotional labour can be defined as a form of manual labour.