Abstract
AbstractWithin most heterosexual households, unpaid household labor is differentially divided based on gender. Specifically, women tend to perform a greater share of household labor than their male partners despite some convergence in time‐use estimates recorded in 1965, 1975, and 1998. Household labor entails all forms of unpaid labor done within the home or for the benefit of the household members, such as cooking, cleaning, and yard work. While family structure influences the extent to which housework is unequally divided, some level of inequality is common across family types. This form of family‐based inequality has negative implications for individuals' relationships and health outcomes. Future work should seek to understand why inequality persists in the household division of labor. Further, researchers should more fully attend to measurement issues in estimations of the household division of labor.
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