Abstract
Using 2002 International Social Survey Program (ISSP) data, the relationship of individual level characteristics with the division of labor was examined for three countries with different patterns of female labor force participation and country-specific gender equality. The impact of two theories, distributive justice and relative resources, was assessed for Sweden, the Netherlands, and Hungary. The author finds that the distributive justice theory had a strong relationship in these three countries in relation to husband and wives’ housework hours and husbands’ participation in core “female” household chores. The Netherlands proves anomalous as wives’ gender role ideologies and housewife status had significant associations with fairness. Relative resources had some association in Hungary as wives’ who earn more than their husbands report less fairness than spouses with equal earnings. The results demonstrate that country context is an important consideration for studying the fairness.
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