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Wife's wage rate was related positively to percentage of spouses' time contributed by the husband in total tasks and house cleaning.","Wife's weekly hours of employment was related positively to percentage of spouses' time contributed by the husband in total tasks and in meal preparation, laundry, dish washing, outdoor work, and driving others to work, school, and other places and was related negatively to percentage of spouses' time contributed by the husband in automobile maintenance. Husband's income was related negatively to percentage of spouses' time contributed by the husband in total tasks and in house cleaning, meal preparation, shopping, and driving others to school, work, and other places. Wife's education was related positively to percentage of spouses' time contributed by the husband in dish washing and in total tasks and was related negatively to percentage of spouses' time contributed by the husband to bill paying. Husband's education was related positively to percentage of spouses' time contributed by the husband in dish washing and bill paying and was related negatively to the percentage of spouses' time contributed by husband to automobile maintenance. Age of youngest child was related ambiguously to relative time contribution of husband to household tasks. Husband's age was related negatively to percentage of spouses' time contributed by the husband in total tasks and meal preparation.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T23:53:52Z (GMT). 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