ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how employment status affects the amount of time women and men spend doing housework and what the division of household tasks means for individual and family well-being. It focuses on the relationship between employment status and the division of domestic tasks. The chapter examines the relationship between partner's employment status and household division of labour. When both the respondent and the partner is unemployed it is possible to compare men's and women's experiences of who does different household tasks when the labour market situation is constant. The association between the partners' labour market status and the distribution of housework is strong even when controlling for the effect of age, children and education. The chapter investigates the relationship between spousal employment status and household division of labour. It analyses how the division of household tasks is related to psychological well-being and the quality of the marital relationship among unemployed men and women.
