| dc.description.abstract | In recent 20 years, the gap of labor participating rate between male and female has narrowed due to the increase of female participating in the labor force. The number of college graduated (or above) female has increased, and female salary is getting higher year by year. However, based on the survey of daily constraint time allocation conducted by DGBAS in 2000 and 2004, the differential of daily housework time between male and female did not get shorten, and it remained the same. This essay will explore why and what the factors are affecting the female housework time within family.
For the factors that are affecting the female housework time within family, this essay mainly discusses the magnitude of impact of resource differential within married couple to the burden of housework by married woman. Each family member owns resource him/herself, and they maximize their output for the whole family by negotiating within family members and through transferring and relocating resources. However, during the process of interchanging resources, in addition to the resource that he/she owns individually, is it the resource differential within married couple that truly affects the result? We therefore set up four assumptions: (1) if the income of husband is greater than the income of wife, we expect the income differential has positive correlation with the wife’s housework burden; (2) if the income of wife is greater than the income of husband, we expect the income differential has negative correlation with the wife’s housework burden; (3) if the years of education of husband is greater than the years of education of wife, we expect the differential of years of education has positive correlation with the wife’s housework burden; (4) if the years of education of wife is greater than the years of education of husband, we expect the differential of years of education has negative correlation with the wife’s housework burden. Through empirical model, in order to lessen the housework burden by married woman, the most efficient tool relies on the income she has and the income differential from her husband.
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