Time Use of Urban Employed Husbands and their Wives.

도시근로자가정 부부의 생활시간구조에 관한 연구

  • 이기영 (서울대학교 가정대학 소비자아동학과)
  • Published : 1994.03.01

Abstract

the purpose of this study is to investigate (1) the real life of urban employed husbands and their wives(2) the balance between labor force reproduction and the labor force consumption(3) and the share of family responsibility by analysis patterns of their time use. Data for 227 couples were gatherd from using structured questionnaire and time diary. (1) Because of Husbands' long labor time and employed wives' roleoverload their social-cultural time is too short which means the pattern of their time use are very unbalanced type. (2) Regardless of wives' employment status husbands' housework time is too short which means that family responsibility is scarcely shared.

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