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WHEN WIVES GET SICK

Gender Role Attitudes, Marital Happiness, and Husbands' Contribution to Household Labor

Brown University

PAMELA S. WEBSTER

University of Rhode Island

This article examines factors related to husbands' contribution to housework when their wives become newly impaired. Data are from a sample of 319 married couples who participated in the National Survey of Families and Households, and in which wives developed physical limitations between baseline and five-year follow-up interviews. Using ordinary least squares regression, we found that husbands who have egalitarian attitudes toward marital roles and are happy in their marriage at baseline do more housework at follow-up than husbands who are traditional and/or are less happy. Given the slow rate of change in household division of labor, the lack of public policies to support people with impairment and family caregiving disproportionately burdens women.

Gender & Society, Vol. 15, No. 6, 898-916 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/089124301015006007


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