Changing housework, changing health? A longitudinal analysis of how changes in housework are associated with functional somatic symptoms.

Conclusions The gendered division of housework means that women are particularly exposed to a heavy workload. Women's responsibility for and performance of housework increase between ages 30 and 42 and this threatens to be embodied in the form FSS. We conclude that housework should be considered an important source of stress in addition to that from waged work and that a deeper understanding of the links between housework and health requires a gender theoretical analysis.
PMID: 29516808 [PubMed]

Source: International Journal of Circumpolar Health - March 10, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Int J Circumpolar Health Source Type: research