Attempting to explain why biological sex remains the primary predictor of household labor allocation, gender theorists have suggested that husbands and wives perform family work in ways that facilitate culturally appropriate constructions of gender. To date, however, researchers have yet to consider the theoretical and empirical significance of emotion work in their studies of the gendered divi...

the present article attempts to investigate the relationship between women's social capital and household tasks division in the family. first, a review of literature and the related theories have been provided. this article has studied a sample of 400 married women in jiroft for the household work division in their family according to the social capital theory. to collect the data, the quantita...

I. The Problem of Cooperation A. Three Unusual Features of Human Societies Human societies exhibit cooperation, coordination, and division of labor, three features that place them at striking variance with most animals. Cooperation involves individuals doing something for the common benefit of everyone in a social group, as when soldiers defend a whole nation against its enemies. Coordination i...

Economic theories of the household predict that increases in female relative human capital lead to decreases in female housework time. However, longitudinal and cross-sectional evidence seems to contradict this implication. Women's share of home time fails to decrease despite increases in women's relative earnings. The literature has proposed social norms on the household division of labor as a...