Factors identified from normative interaction, resource theory, and family development theory were related to female, shared, and male household task responsibilities of wives and husbands. Employed wives tended to reduce their responsibility for female household tasks with little or no change in the responsibility of the husband. (Author/CT)

The employment status of the wife had no significant impact on perceptions of husband competence or provider competence. White husbands perceived themselves as most competent providers when wives held blue collar jobs, while Black husbands perceived themselves as most competent providers when wives held white collar jobs. (Author/CT)

Inspite of the tremendous increase in the burden of market work faced by married American women in the last decade, the differential in household work time between husbands and wives still persists. The results of this study assert that the differences in socioeconomic characteristics between husbands and wives explain only part of that…