Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Pages: 9-28

Journal: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung = Journal of family research

Volume number: 30

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1437-2940

eISSN: 2196-2154

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.3224/zff.v30i1.02

Publisher: Budrich

Abstract: 
As a result of the increasing labor force participation of mothers, this article questions how two-parent households divide the housework activities of caring, cooking and cleaning. Therefore three types of couples with different labor force participations were formed: Dual-earner couples, couples with additional female income and male-breadwinner couples. The time use for the mentioned activities was examined with a secondary analysis based on the German representative time use surveys of 2012/2013 and 2001/2002. The analysis showed that fulltime mothers spent the lowest amount of time for caring, cooking and cleaning. However, unemployed mothers spent the most time for these activities. Within a decade - from 2001/2002 to 2012/2013 - all mothers have reduced their time spent on household activities. Meanwhile, all parents in 2012/2013 take noticeably more time for child care. Regardless of the mother's labor force participation, mothers still spent more time for caring, cooking and cleaning, especially on weekdays. Additionally, the everyday housework is divided by gender. Only on weekends, couples with employed mothers shared the care-work almost egalitarian.

Harvard Citation style: Kluender, N. and Meier-Graewe, U. (2018) Caring, cooking, cleaning - Representative time use patterns in two-parent households, Zeitschrift für Familienforschung = Journal of family research, 30(1), pp. 9-28. https://doi.org/10.3224/zff.v30i1.02

APA Citation style: Kluender, N., & Meier-Graewe, U. (2018). Caring, cooking, cleaning - Representative time use patterns in two-parent households. Zeitschrift für Familienforschung = Journal of family research. 30(1), 9-28. https://doi.org/10.3224/zff.v30i1.02