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Full citation:
1978. "Working Women's Involvement in Domestic Labor." Journal of Domestic Labor Studies 1:1-11.

General Theoretical Orientation:
Atheoretical (dash of structural S.I., typical of Flier's work!)

Specific Problem Statement:
Do women who are strongly committed to their current employment do less domestic labor?

Specific Constructs Discussed:
Race/ethnicity, income, education, formal work hours, time in current employment, domestic labor general methodological approach: structured response mail-in questionnaire

Sampling Procedure:
Stratified random sample size

Non-Response:

Attrition:

Representativeness:

Sample Limitations:
247 (max)
General 87%, but with serious non-response problem for key questions NA Ohio 1975
wife only

Measurement Procedures:
For each e.g., household domestic labor: wife's estimate of last two weeks for both herself and husband, uses roughly ordinal, fixed response, time categories (0-5, 6-10, etc.)

Analysis:
ANOVA, correlation, OLS regression (appropriate given skewed response data?)

Results:
Regardless of background factors women work about 35 hours a week in domestic labor. What made this study interesting was the complete lack of significant relationships of any of the variables to the number of hours worked in domestic labor.

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