Gender Border Crossing and the Household Division of Labor and Childcare

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dc.contributor.advisorStykes, James B.
dc.contributor.advisorKonefal, Jason
dc.creatorArsenault, Kenneth
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-26T18:04:22Z
dc.date.available2018-04-26T18:04:22Z
dc.date.created2018-05
dc.date.issued2018-04-09
dc.date.submittedMay 2018
dc.date.updated2018-04-26T18:06:32Z
dc.description.abstractThe division of household labor is unequally distributed against women. Men employed less than their female partner have more opportunity to equalize this division. The theoretical perspective of gender borders is used to explain how partners navigate this division of labor and how men border cross into the gender territory associated with women. Data from the 2016 American Time Use Survey are used to locate border crossings of partnered fathers with co-resident children. Inline with exchange-related models, findings indicate that men increase both their frequency of border crossing and their time in women’s territory as the employment status of their partner increases and then exceeds their own. Yet during the nighttime men’s border crossings decrease as women’s employment status reaches parity, with stay-at-home fathers crossing proportionately less in the nighttime than fathers in all other earner categories. The methodological benefits of using time as a model variate are discussed as are the implications of this research for gender equality within the household.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11875/2348
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectDivision of household labor
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectBorder crossing
dc.titleGender Border Crossing and the Household Division of Labor and Childcare
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentSociology
thesis.degree.grantorSam Houston State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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