Replacing housework in the service economy: gender, class, and race-ethnicity…

Using data from the 1993 Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine housework-related service consumption, the author finds that spending on housekeeping services and meals out -- which helps relieve women's housework burden -- is affected by dynamics within marriages as well as by family class and race-ethnicity. Other things equal, families in which women have more relative power as reflected in …