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Blood and Wolfe’s relative resources theory has been cited as an explanation for the well-documented finding that women have typically performed and continue to perform far more domestic labor in their households than men do. This theory holds that power in a family accrues to the spouse contributing the most resources to the household. Such power can be used to withdraw from monotonous housework. Where husbands specialize in income generation, while wives work part- time or are unpaid homemakers, the theory might explain the domestic division of labor. Yet Atkins and Boles found that wives who earn more than their husbands often do most of the domestic labor in their households, and Brayfield found that women whose husbands are unemployed also do most of the housework.
It can be inferred from the passage that the relative resources theory would predict which of the following?
Wives who engage in part-time paid employment would do about the same amount of domestic labor as wives who are employed full-time.
Wives who are full-time homemakers would do more of their household’s domestic labor than husbands who are not employed outside the home.
Husbands who are economically dependent on their wives would perform most of their household’s domestic labor.
Husbands whose wives engage in part-time paid employment would perform about the same amount of domestic labor as husbands of full-time homemakers.
Husbands whose wives engage in part-time paid employment would earn less than husbands whose wives are full-time homemakers.
Select one answer choice.
