Thirty years ago, Bumpass & Westoff (1970: 95) asked," Do women limit their fertility in order
to have time to pursue their nonfamily-oriented interests, or do women work if their fertility …

In this chapter we review research on the division of household labor and its consequences.
The review summarizes research focused on issues of measurement, including research on …

The modern family is under strain. What we crave most from our families is intimacy, warmth
and self-fulfilment but we often find this difficult to achieve. We hold onto these expectations …

Recently much attention has been focused on whether the gender transformation of paid
and unpaid work in society referred to as the gender revolution has hit a wall, or at least …

Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new
century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to …

This study tests the two assumptions underlying popularly held notions that maternal
employment negatively affects children because it reduces time spent with parents:(1) that …

Time-diary data from representative samples of American adults show that the number of
overall hours of domestic labor (excluding child care and shop**) has continued to …

The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the
overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now …

Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction:* Women have
entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the …

Over the last forty years, the number of American households with a stay-at-home parent has
dwindled as women have increasingly joined the paid workforce and more women raise …