The relationship between parenthood and well-being has become a hot topic among
scholars, media, and general public alike. The research, however, has been mixed—some …

We used meta-analysis to examine recent studies of sex differences in coping. Women were
more likely than men to engage in most coping strategies. The strongest effects showed that …

Stay‐at‐home orders and the removal of care and domestic supports during the early days
of the COVID‐19 pandemic substantially disrupted US parents' work and family lives …

Objective The study examines the associations between two distinct forms of workplace
flexibility—flexible schedules and working at home—and workers' well‐being, with special …

In an advanced society like the US, where an array of processes work against gender
inequality, how does this inequality persist? Integrating research from sociology, social …

Time-diary data from representative samples of American adults show that the number of
overall hours of domestic labor (excluding child care and shopping) has continued to …

This article reviews more than 200 scholarly articles and books on household labor
published between 1989 and 1999. As a maturing area of study, this body of research has …

This study examines the role of gender stereotypes in justifying the social system by
maintaining the division of labor between the sexes. The distribution of the sexes in 80 …

“Daddy quotas” that reserve some parental leave for fathers are increasingly common in
developed nations, but it is unclear whether fathers respond to the binding constraints or the …

National context may influence sex segregation of household tasks through both pragmatic
decision making and the normative context in which decision making is embedded. This …