{"id":1679,"date":"2024-09-27T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T04:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2024-09-27T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T04:59:30","slug":"beyond-the-manager-helper-dynamic-rethinking-how-couples-share-household-management-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/2024\/09\/27\/beyond-the-manager-helper-dynamic-rethinking-how-couples-share-household-management-responsibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the \u2018Manager-helper\u2019 Dynamic:  Rethinking How Couples Share Household Management Responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colloquium in September 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Youngcho Lee(Pusan National University, Department of Sociology)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous studies on the gendered division of household labor and responsibilities have characterized mothers as the household managers primarily responsible for mental labor and fathers as \u2018helping out\u2019 with physical tasks when asked or given directions.<\/p>\n<p>While such a description may indeed account for the majority of different-sex couples, the current paper contends that the image of mothers as managers and fathers as helpers is conceptually limiting in that it reproduces a \u2018deficit model of masculinity\u2019 as well as failing to capture a diversity of couples who may not concur with this dynamic.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on in-depth individual interviews (N=36) with both parents of eighteen Korean married dual-earner couples with children, I offer a conceptualization and analysis of the varied ways couples are departing away from the manager-helper dynamic to share responsibility for managing the household. I further discuss factors that enable fathers\u2019 greater roles across both physical and mental dimensions of household labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloquium in September 2024 Youngcho Lee(Pusan National University, Department of Sociology) Previous studies on the gendered division of household labor and responsibilities have characterized mothers as the household managers primarily responsible for mental labor and fathers as \u2018helping out\u2019 with physical tasks when asked or given directions. While such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[36,10,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}