Women generally earn less that men - economically rational for women to do more housework.
Kan
Found that for every £10,000 a year earned by a women, she does 2 hours less housework per week.
Arber and Ginn
Found that better paid middle class women were more able to buy commercially produced products, such as laboursaving devices, ready meals and childcare. Rather than having to spend time carrying out labourintensive domestic tasks themselves.
Xavier Ramos
Found that where the women is the full-time breadwinner and the man who is unemployed does as much domesticlabour as she does.
Sullivan
Shows that working full-time rather than part-time makes the biggest difference in terms of how much domesticwork each partner does.
