Friday, October 29, 2010

Who does what?

A follow-up to my last post: While going through the theses and dissertations i’ve found on Mormon cultural patterns over the past few months, i found reference to a study* that found that Mormons express more intolerance for nontraditional gender roles in household labor (e.g., a husband doing the cooking, or a wife setting up a computer) than Catholics or Protestants, but that Mormons actually don’t differ from Catholics or Protestants in the way household labor is actually divided. Intriguing difference/non-difference there.

* Necessary disclaimer: The summary here is from a secondary source, i haven’t read the original, so i can’t vouch 100% for what’s here. The article that this comes from is referenced in the thesis as Bahr 1983—and then it isn’t listed in the works cited! Grrrr…How am i supposed to find it without a full citation? Well, i’ll be looking for it, definitely…

2 comments:

maybe said...

very good and cool,thank you for your sharing.

Heather the Mama Duk said...

I am very, very happy that my husband enjoys cooking. In fact, I'd like it if he did it more. For that matter, our mother really likes that Jamie enjoys cooking and would like him to do it more as well. Neither Mommie nor I really love cooking.