The problem of this study was to determine if the sex role identification, age, education, and income of employed married couples were related to their perception of who should and does perform household tasks. The forty-five couples were volunteers from organizations for working women. Each spouse completed a Bem Sex Role Inventory and a Household Task Inventory. Using Chi-square and t-tests no significant differences were found between sex role identification, education level, income level, and the sharing of household tasks. When a Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient was used, age and sharing of household tasks were found to have an inverse relationship with the young sharing more tasks. The study concluded that couples expect household tasks to be shared but females tend to perform the traditional feminine tasks and males the traditional masculine tasks.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504371 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Gentry, Mary Anne |
| Contributors | Nies, Joyce I., Thomas, L. Fred (Lawrence Fred) |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vi, 94 leaves, Text |
| Coverage | United States - Texas - Dallas County - Dallas, 1981-1982 |
| Rights | Public, Gentry, Mary Anne, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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