Conditions we first show that high income married or cohabiting women do twice as much housework as single women in Southern … with respect to relative wages. We thus present positive evidence for the presence of a “second-shift” that women face in …

work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the … GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labour supply. We theoretically explain this … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …