ABSTRACT
Parenthood alters the gender division of labor. Women increase their time spent in housework and decrease their time spent in paid work, whereas men increase their time spent in paid work and decrease their time spent in housework. This chapter presents an analytical report of the statistical data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which is a United states (US) probability sample of 12,686 men and women who were interviewed in 1979 to 2006. Gender ideology does not moderate the association between fatherhood and African American men's paid work hours. Traditional white men were about 20" less likely than egalitarian white men to have spouses that were employed full time. The transition to fatherhood is associated with an increase in White men's paid work hours and the increase is more than twice as large for traditional white men than for egalitarian white men. Gender ideology would moderate the association between fatherhood and White men's paid work hours.
