Luke Nancy, Xu Hongwei, Thampi Binitha V
Department of Sociology and Criminology, The Pennsylvania State University, 906 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802 (
Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson St., 216 NU ISR Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
J Marriage Fam. 2014 Jun 1;76(3):620-637. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12108.
The authors tested theories of housework among tea plantation workers in India, where women comprise the main part of the workforce and are breadwinners in their families. Analysis of 49 semistructured interviews and survey data from 3,181 female workers revealed that although women were mainly responsible for domestic labor, more than half of husbands usually or sometimes helped their wives with cooking, fuel wood collection, and child care. The analyses revealed a curvilinear relationship between husbands' earnings share and their participation in each task, supporting theories of bargaining and gender display. The probability of male participation decreased to its lowest level when men earned less than their wives. Husbands rarely helped with clothes washing-considered the most feminine task-and their participation did not respond to changes in relative earnings. These results support the authors' argument that patterns of bargaining and gender display will vary depending on the gendered nature of housework tasks within a particular society.
作者对印度茶园工人的家务劳动理论进行了测试，在印度，女性构成了劳动力的主要部分，并且是家庭的主要经济支柱。对49次半结构化访谈以及来自3181名女工的调查数据的分析表明，尽管女性主要负责家务劳动，但超过一半的丈夫通常或有时会帮助妻子做饭、收集薪柴和照顾孩子。分析揭示了丈夫的收入份额与其参与各项任务之间的曲线关系，支持了议价和性别展示理论。当男性收入低于妻子时，男性参与的可能性降至最低水平。丈夫很少帮忙洗衣服——这被认为是最具女性特征的任务——而且他们的参与情况对相对收入的变化没有反应。这些结果支持了作者的观点，即议价和性别展示模式会因特定社会中家务劳动任务的性别性质而有所不同。
