ABSTRACT
Household work continues to be of interest to professionals, academics, and the public at large. Recent statistics show that 63" of women with children under 16 years of age were paid labour force participants in 1994, up from 52" in 1984. The resurgence is relevant to household production because home-based work is seen by some as a "family-responsive" policy, that is, a policy that helps employees to balance their family work and paid work demands. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship by: providing estimates of the time spent in household work for home-based and non-home-based women and men, and ascertaining if home-based employment is a significant determinant of household work time. Contrary to the findings for women, home-based employment does not appear to be a work-family balancing strategy for men. Independent variables A dummy variable coded "1" if the respondent was a home-based worker and "0" otherwise was used to measure the effect of workplace location.
