SOCL 2505 Chapter : Chapter 8 Notes
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If both people contributed to outside work, decisions were more likely to be made by both: this links market work with family work, figure 8. 1 labor force participation rates of married women with children under age 18. Increase in women (especially from 1950-1990: labor force people who either work outside of home or are actively looking for a job, from single-earner to dual-earner marriages. In mid twentieth century, few wives worked outside home: only one paid worker the man, rates of employed women rose sharp through the 1990s and leveled off around. *often, there is no reward/recognition; society expects that people should do care work because they want to. 64: so the results of comparable time diary studies are represented in figure. 8. 2 : so here we are looking at the number of minutes men and women spend in unpaid domestic work excluding time spent doing child care.
