ABSTRACT
Over the last half-century, demographic, economic, and normative shifts have pushed the trajectory of marriage and family life in the United States in a generally egalitarian direction, with men taking up a larger share of the housework and childcare associated with family life (Bianchi et al. 2006; Robinson and Godbey 1999; Sayer 2005). Nevertheless, the gender revolution of the last half century is incomplete: women still perform the majority of childcare and housework in American families; indeed, in recent years, the percentage of married mothers who are working has stalled out (Bianchi et al. 2006; Hochschild and Machung 1989; Hotchkiss et al. 2008; Stone 2007). In other words, there is much about the division of labor in contemporary family life that remains gendered, especially when couples have children at home.
