ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the findings of a number of published qualitative and quantitative studies with the evidence from the Social Change in Economic Life Initiative data set. It shows what partners see as valuable and therefore worth doing varies according to the gender role frameworks that they believe in. The chapter discusses few quantitative studies of the consequences of the 'second shift' for partners within a household. It examines to what extent the findings of the qualitative and quantitative studies are supported by the data used. The chapter also examines a model of the female partner's level of satisfaction with the division of domestic work tasks within her household. The chapter also discusses existing quantitative studies of satisfaction was that working class women who had middle class husbands would be more satisfied, even when doing higher proportions of domestic work than women of the same, or 'higher' social class than their husbands.
