Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Trade-off of the Day: housework and marital happiness.

From a study of marital quality in the US:

Only one trend - husbands' share of housework - had implications that differed for husbands and wives. The increase in the proportion of housework done by husbands appears to have improved the marital quality of wives but to have eroded the marital quality of husbands.


Reference:
Continuity and Change in Marital Quality between 1980 and 2000.
Author(s): Paul R. Amato, David R. Johnson, Alan Booth, Stacy J. Rogers
Source: Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Feb., 2003), pp. 1-22.
Published by: National Council on Family Relations
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3600047

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