Abstract
Our research studies the household labor of dual-earner couples—married or cohabiting couples where both partners are employed. Integrating power theories and gender-role perspectives, we examine how power dynamics within dual-earner couples influence each spouse's household labor. Polynomial analyses of 204 respondents in dual-earner couples revealed that relative power between spouses affects men and women differently. A focal spouse's asymmetric power over the partner spouse exerted a strong influence on men's participation in household labor, but not for women. In addition, we found a concave relationship between the couple's symmetric power and men's household labor, indicating that men increase household labor when both spouses jointly increase power but stop increasing when both spouses reach high power. Our research contributes to the literature of power, gender, and dual-earner couples by examining all possible patterns of the power structure within couples and providing a precise explanation of how relative power and joint power between spouses affect husbands' and wives' household labor.
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