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American Sociological Review, October 1983 issue carries two relevant articles. In the first Shelley Coverman writes about “Gender, Domestic Labor Time, and Wage Inequality”. This study examined connections between family and employment activities by testing the often noted proposition that women's domestic activities affect their labour force achievements. The results supported the hypothesis that the time currently married women and men spend in housework and child care exerts a negative influence on their wages. These findings imply that there are important linkages between the familial and economic spheres, whereby sexual inequality in the familial division of labour helps perpetuate sexual inequality in the labour market.