• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.33-48
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to examine consciousness of household work and participation in adolescents. Partitioned by gender, the personal characteristics, Sociodemographic variables, and parents' household work variables of each respondent was analyzed. The results are summarized as follows. Firstly, adolescents demonstrated positive consciousness on the value, and participation in, of household work. However, participation rates in household work was lower than consciousness. Secondly, male adolescent participation in household work varied according to communication satisfaction with family, father's participation in household work, father's consciousness on equality of both sexes, amount of household work delegated, and amount of household work delegated to each sex. However, female adolescent participation in household work varied according to mothers' employment status, father's participation in household work, amount of household work delegated, and amount of household work delegated to each sex. Finally, father's participation in household work directly, and indirectly, affected male adolescent participation. However, in female adolescents, parents' compliment was the most meaningful variable directly and indirectly related to participation in household work.

• Women's Studies Review
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.139-173
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• 2012

This paper examines the delayed situations for gender equality in South Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese families despite the challenge to the gender division of labor in modern society, and to analyze the contradiction between the notions of gender equality and the experiences women face in East Asia countries. Using EASS data, we analyze the effective difference over the division of household labor according to women's age and length of school time, attitude for gender division of labor, couple's labor time, and family network. In South Korea and Taiwan, men's actual ratio of household division is higher than Japanese men's. On the other hand, Japanese women's ratio of household division is the highest in spite of their progressive attitude for gender equality. It is due to the difference of women's working time among the countries. In South Korea and Taiwan, women tend to work in full time job, so that they seem to inevitably reduce the time for household labor. The family characteristics have an effect on the women's ratio of household division in Taiwan, and the feature of women's employment does in South Korea. The high percentage of three-generation household contributes to the reduction of housework burden in Taiwan. In South Korea, the higher women's education levels, the higher the women's ratio of household division. Women's weakened bargaining power for household labor is due to the relatively low level of high-educated women's economic participation in South Korea. This paper reveals the effective factors on the gender division of household labor. We propose the necessity of the macro-level analysis as well as the analysis of the personal and conjugal feature.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.39-51
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• 2000

The major purpose of this study is to investigate the middle school students’consciousness and their participation of household work. The participants were 540 middle school students but the final data used in this study was 489. For the statistical analysis of this study, frequency, percentage, mean. standard deviation. Cronbach’s $\alpha$ coefficient, one way ANOVA, t-test. Duncan’s Multiple Range Test and Pearson’s correlation were calculated. The results of this study were summarized as follows: 1. It was appeared that the middle school students’consciousness and their participation of household work was high. 2. According to the household environmental variables. there was not any significant difference in the middle school students’consciousness of household work but there was significant difference in the middle school student’s participation of household work. 3. According to the school environmental variables there was not any significant difference in the middle school students’consciousness of household work, but there was significant difference in the middle school students’ participation of household work. 4. According to the degree of family life satisfaction, there was significant difference both in the middle school students’consciousness and in their participation of household work in whole categories. 5. According to the degree of Home Economics course cognition there was significant difference both in the middle school students’ consciousness and in their participation of household work in whole categories.