Household, Paid, and Unpaid Work Time of Farm Women

The proposal that the time allotments to household paid and unpaid work are unique for farm women compared to rural nonfarm and urban women is examined using the NE-113 data base (An interstate Comparison of Urban/Rural Families Time Use) a stratified random sample of 2100 2-parent 2-child families within the rural and urban areas of 11 states. There was no significant difference among farm rural nonfarm and urban women in the allocation of time to categories of household work. Farm women spent more time in unpaid work and orgaizational participation while rural nonfarm women devoted the most hours to paid employment. Stepwise multiple regression identified hours in paid employment as the factors which contributed most to a decrease in all womens household work time. Hours of unpaid work by farm women were not affected by womens hours of paid work or household work. (authors)