ry that suggests that because women are of lower status to their husband, in regards to paid labour force earnings, the mens paid labour force job is more prestigious than his wifes. Blair and Lichter raise an issue when they say that family power, which is typically measured by the personal resource of each spouse may also affect the allocation of domestic tasks by reinforcing traditional assignments of tasks by gender (Blair, 1991, 94). Although this theory does make sense, family power is not always divided by who makes more money.The third theory identified by Blair and Lichter is the gender role ideology, and the fact that by nature women are socialised to perform related to tasks to their femininity, as well as men are raised to perform related tasked to their masculinity. This theory is more related to traditional sex roles of the expressive wife and the instrumental husband. Blair and Lichter report that females are more likely to be assigned to traditional female orientated tasks, such as cleaning, washing, and cooking (Blair, 1991, 94). Whereas men are more likely to perform male dominated tasks such as snow shovelling, taking out the garbage, car repairs, lawn mowing, and household repairs. In addition to these three theories, the personal satisfaction that one receives from the household labour can also be applied. It is expected that generally wives receive greater satisfaction from particular household task performed, and according to Pittmans article about one third of men agreed that it was not their own household standards that were being performed but indeed it was actually the standards of their wives (Pittman et al., 1999, 748). It is common knowledge that women care more about the physical appearance of their household than men do. So therefore, it is probable that women are still doing a majority of the domestic work on top of her paid work, because she is simply more concerned with her homes appearance.Wo...
