Questionnaire Design and Analysis of Survey Data

The women’s attitude towards house-husband

1. introduction

Today’s world is much different than that of decades or hundreds of years ago. The structure of social economy have changed a lot, so does social division of work. In the ancient times, men are supposed to be the bread-winner of the whole family while the women are supposed to be the housewife to deal with daily chores. However, since the great advancement in economy and education, women are able to economic independently to some extent and sometime perhaps earn more than men. That phenomenon brings up the question: whether women come back to traditional battle field-family or stay at the modern workforce to fulfill their life meaning. Actually, there are going some real changes in social division of labor in household. Some women go to work while men stay at home to take care of baby and family chores. Actually, my hypothesis is whether women‘s attitude towards current situation if their husband stay at home being house-husbands is related to their educational level.

2. Literature review

The first journal comes from Diane Keyser Wentworth & Robert M. Chell, “The Role of Househusband and Housewife as Perceived by a College Population”. In the paper, the authors explored the certain amount of college population react too husband and housewife. The results indicates that house-husband is not supported much but as an ongoing trend while most female are dissatisfied with traditional gender role, they anticipate more change in family life. Another journal is RHONDA A. FAULKNER, MAUREEN DAVEY & ADAM DAVEY’s “Gender-Related Predictors of Change in Marital Satisfaction and Marital Conflict”. In this paper, the results show that wives’ marital and interpersonal functioning may be a greater predictor for husbands’ marital satisfaction and marital conflict. How to find the balance between women’s interpersonal life and their role played in the family are much influential on marital status of both parties, which is an everlasting problem for women and for men too. Therefore, I want to find women’s attitude and expectation on house-husband since it is a trend that social division of work changed along with the times.

3. Findings

Table 1

The question this essay is working on is in a home shared by an adult woman and man, which person should be responsible for the completion of the majority of the unpaid household duties. One person choose the woman side, and other two chose both, there are also three person choose unsure. From the general point of the view, they are more inclined to the mutual working side. As for the percent, a lot of people still choose both of the adult should share the duties equally. While in my opinion, I do not want to be so feminism about my research topic, I would like to choose the sharing equal duty too.

Table 2

This table shows that there being no one think women should do more housework than men, which means it is a trend that balance plays a role in the modern life style. There are also two person disagreed with this idea directly. In a general way, it is good to witness majority of the people would like to agree that women having their own job.

Table 3

When it comes to the cross table, which are putting these two questions together. We found that the biggest number lands on the middle part, which indicates that women should not do more housework than man, and they should share the duty equally.

Table 4

I think the cross table is very important to the whole research by providing a firm answer to my question. There are many missing answers, but still complete the questionnaire at the last.

4. Conclusion

Through the study about women’s attitude towards house-husband, I find that most women want to find a perfect balance between family and professional career. What they want most is to build up a healthy family mode, i.e., wife and husband share the family chores as well as financial security. However, it also depends husband’s career. Results indicate that women’s income level does not exert much influence on this issue.

Citation:

[1] Diane Keyser Wentworth & Robert M. Chell (2001) The Role of Househusband and Housewife as Perceived by a College Population, The Journal of Psychology, 135:6, 639-650.

[2] RHONDA A. FAULKNER , MAUREEN DAVEY & ADAM DAVEY (2005) Gender-Related Predictors of Change in Marital Satisfaction and Marital Conflict, The American Journal of Family Therapy, 33:1, 61-83.