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    Shares of Housework Between Mothers, Fathers and Young People: Routine and Non-routine Housework, Doing Housework for Oneself and Others

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    Author
    Craig, L; Powell, A
    Date
    2018-02-01
    Source Title
    Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement
    Publisher
    Springer Verlag
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Craig, Jocelyn
    Affiliation
    School of Social and Political Sciences
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    Journal Article
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    Craig, L. & Powell, A. (2018). Shares of Housework Between Mothers, Fathers and Young People: Routine and Non-routine Housework, Doing Housework for Oneself and Others. Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, 136 (1), pp.269-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1539-3.
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    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/251917
    DOI
    10.1007/s11205-016-1539-3
    ARC Grant code
    ARC/FT150100067
    Abstract
    We use data from the most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Time Use Survey to investigate shares of domestic work along two dimensions; routine and non-routine activities, and housework done for the whole household versus housework done for oneself only. We argue that the latter is an underutilised marker of responsibility for household management and serving others. Exploiting data from matched household members, we examine relative shares of fathers and mothers, and also of co-resident young people aged 15-34 (416 households), to include inputs from the younger generation as well as the parental couple. Mothers do the greatest share of routine housework and housework for others; parents are relatively equal in the shares of non-routine housework and housework done for themselves only. Young people take on a minimal share of total household work, particularly tasks done for others in the family. Parents’ employment configuration is associated with adjustments in shares between them, with no effect on children’s shares.

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