Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Evan tends to do the nondiscretionary, routine tasks that can be postponed, such as cooking, washing dishes, or cleaning, and these are known as occasional labor.
2. Women tend to do about twice the amount of housework that men do.
3. The time availability perspective is a perspective that suggests the division of labor is largely determined by (1) the need for household labor, such as the number of children in the home; and (2) each partner’s availability to perform household tasks, such as the number of hours spent in paid work.
4. A concept that suggests housework is so ingrained as “women’s work” that it functions as an area in which gender is symbolically created and reproduced is called “doing gender.”
5. A form of tension under which people feel that the pressures from paid work and family roles are incompatible in some way is known as role overload.
1. F
2. T
3. T
4. T
5. F
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