Sharing housework between husbands and wives: how to improve marital satisfaction for working wives in Japan

Abstract

Abstract This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse performs. For single-earner couples, both husbands and wives are more satisfied with the other spouse ifthe wifeperforms the greater share of the housework on weekdays. In dual-earner couples, both husbands and wives experience higher spousal satisfaction when theotherspouse performs more housework on weekdays. Japanese dual-earner couples are unable to spend more time on housework, because wives are already performing a significant share of housework on weekdays while husbands are working long hours. JEL Classification:J12, J22

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 15 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.