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In reply to the discussion: Married men who do more housework get less sex [View all]Romulus Quirinus
(524 posts)The Institute is named after Juan March Ordinas, and is part of his Foundation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_March_Ordinas
Mr. Ordinas was banker who played a pivotal roll on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War, at one point the seventh wealthiest man in the world. It shouldn't be shocking that they would do research to show that following *clap clap* TRADITION leads to more sex, lol.
Also, you'll notice if you read the paper itself (link provided up-thread by another helpful soul) that it is an enormous wall of text without the traditional formatting of a scientific paper, which is frustrating for anyone trying to skim. I'll post a follow-up when I find the relevant information because bogosity posing as science really rustles my jimmies.
In support of the supposition that the author has an axe to grind, here's another paper by Kornich in the "Journal of Family History." Italics are added by me:
Household Services in the Twentieth Century
Sabino Kornrich, Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Calle de Castelló 77, 28006 Madrid, Spain Email: skornrich{at}march.es
Abstract
The division between home and market has long been a key dimension of family life and shifts across the home/market boundary are important for both gender inequality and the family. Two shifts across this boundary occurred in the twentieth century: womens movement into paid labor and a decline in household labor. One stylized conception suggests that as women moved into paid labor, they used their new resources to purchase replacements. This article takes up this question, asking whether womens movement into market labor led to the commodification of the home. It does so by combining evidence from primary and secondary sources about womens reliance on services to offer a picture of how services have been used. The article argues that household labor is infused with emotional and relational content which has made it difficult to replace.