Domestic Work, Family Characteristics, and Earnings: Reexamining Gender and Class Differences.
Using the 1996 Indiana Quality of Employment Survey, we reexamine gender and class differences in the effects of domestic work and family characteristics on earnings. We expand upon Coverman's (1983) original model by including several new measures. We find that the gender gap in domestic work has n...
| Published in: | Sociological Quarterly Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 663 - 691 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Fall 2004
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