ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the relationship between attitudes toward the work roles of the sexes and the domestic division of labour between partners within households. It discusses the factors which shape individuals attitudes toward the proper work roles of the sexes, the processes need to be located within a society in which women are still predominantly identified with the domestic role. The book shows that, although flawed, the new home economic theory advocated by Gary Becker is, theoretically speaking, a better alternative than any of the other theories reviewed and the theory has had some success in explaining the distribution of domestic work in other studies. It attempts to see how close actual data from the Social Change in Economic Life Initiative surveys approximated an ideal type model, controlling for different variables that may superficially confound the theory's predictions.
