How last night's fight affects the way couples divide housework
- Written by Leah Ruppanner, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Melbourne
Income and gender roles are not the only factors in the division of household chores.Shutterstock
Housework is traditionally understood as an economic exchange – housework for money – or as a form of patriarchy drawn along gendered lines. Yet our new study argues that housework is also divided according to the previous night’s...
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