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The American home remains a ”gender factory” in which girls age 12-18
”seem to carry the largest share of housework of all children,” according to sociology professors Linda Waite, of the University of Chicago, and Frances Goldscheider, of Brown University, authors of ”New Families, No Families? The Transformation of the American Home” (University of California Press, $34.95). One bright spot, Waite says, is that boys in mother-only
families did much more housework than did boys in two-parent families. ”These boys may eventually make better husbands,” says Waite. ”They are more willing to share this load.”
