Work-life balance is a topic eliciting much attention and scholarship. Yet what scholars mean
by work-life balance is wide-ranging. This review focuses on work-life balance scholarship …

A relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication Close Encounters:
Communication in Relationships, Fifth Edition helps students better understand their …

This chapter reviews the main theoretical perspectives and key recent empirical research on
the gender division of housework. We focus on unpaid housework, but where relevant also …

Research on same‐sex couples and housework can add nuance to our understanding of
gender and housework. This analytic review highlights what can be gained from research on …

Consumer researchers have primarily conceptualized cultural capital either as an endowed
stock of resources that tend to reproduce socioeconomic hierarchies among consumer …

Data from the 2002 International Social Survey Program: Family and Changing Gender
Roles (III) are analyzed for 25,750 married or cohabiting adults from 31 countries in Europe …

This article represents a call to family scholars for help in examining the effects of business
ownership on families. To demonstrate the importance of this call, we illustrate the extent to …

A number of recent studies explore predictors of gender ideology due to its consistent
influence on a range of outcomes. Another growing body of research investigates the effects …

This paper examines the time-use patterns of adults in dual-earner households with and
without children as a function of several individual and household socio-demographics and …

An unequal division of housework has been found to be often regarded as fair, which may
explain why women still do most household labor. This study extends previous research by …