Gershuny (2008)

Cards (3)

  • What did Gershuny ask couples to do?
    Keep a diary of amount of time they spent on domestic work and paid work
  • What did Gershuny find?
    As women entered the workforce they had to reduce the amount of hours spent on housework
  • Men weren't adapting quick enough to take their share of the domestic work - lagged adaptation