Division of Labor, Gender Ideology, and Marital Satisfaction in East Asia

Using data from the 2006 Family Module of the East Asian Social Survey ( N = 3,096), this article examines associations of marital satisfaction with divisions of housework and gender ideology in four East Asian societies: urban China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Compared with Japanese and Korean married women and men, Chinese and Taiwanese spouses were more satisfied with their marriage and had more egalitarian divisions of housework, but...