Housework is an academic issue

Academe

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-44

  Schiebinger, Londa ^a   Gilmartin, Shannon K ^a  

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EID: 77149174172     PISSN: 01902946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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1. Household hour estimates for this study are derived from Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, "Do Babies Matter (Part II)? Closing the Baby Gap", Academe 90(November-December 2004):10-15;
2. and the 2007 American Time Use Survey (http://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a1- 2007pdf). Using Mason and Goulden's data, we calculate that a two-person academic household devotes approximately twenty-four hours a week to housework. Seven household tasks in our "Managing Academic Careers" survey (see figure 1) are then distributed across these twenty-four hours; tasks were roughly weighted according to American Time Use Survey daily estimates for each.