Division of Household Work Between Partners: A Comparison of Black and White Couples

Yoshinori Kamo · Ellen L. Cohen

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Using data from National Survey of Families and Households, division of household work by married/cohabiting partners is analyzed for White and Black couples. Black couples are found to be more egalitarian than their White counterparts in their performance of household work. When work hours for pay and household work hours are combined, however, Black women are found to be most disadvantaged. The explanatory power of the theoretical model utilizing each partner’s resource contribution, time availability, and gender-role attitude is found limited for White couples and even more so for Black couples. Reasons for limited explanatory power of the model are discussed, emphasizing a symbolic meaning of performing household work for women and a possible inadequacy of individualistic assumptions made in this study as well as in many other studies of family research.

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