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Farm Wives' Preferences, Time Allocation, and Off-Farm Employment Status

Dept. of Housing, Management, and Consumer Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602

Farm wives' preferences for use of time in household and farm tasks, their actual time in these tasks, and their external employment status were investigated with a sample of farm wives from seven states. Most wives preferred to spend about the same amount of time they were actually spending in each of the 17 tasks. Not all who had other preferences desired to decrease their time in such tasks; many farm wives preferred to spend more time in tasks such as house care, household management, and gardening. Wives' off-farm employment status was signifi cantly related to their feelings about time in selected household and farm tasks. Generally, higher proportions of employed wives wanted to increase their time in meal preparation; house care; yard, car, and pet care; clothing care and construc tion ; field work; caring for livestock; and running farm errands. The actual amount of time women spent at these tasks and their hours of employment time were only sporadically related to their feelings about their use of time.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, 110-124 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8801700111


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