Housework, Health, and Well-Being in Older Adults: The Role of Socioeconomic Status

Housework, Health, and Well-Being in Older Adults: The Role of Socioeconomic Status

household chores are necessary tasks but perceiving the amount of time spent on these tasks as unfair can produce long-term negative consequences on health, well-being, and relationship quality. A key contribution of this study stems from introducing participants’ socio-economic status as a factor to determine specifically who are more likely to perceive household chores hours as unfair. Daily stress and depleted psychological resources may be necessary to understand why perceived fairness differs according to socio-economic status

The Case against Sexual Revolution-Louise Perry

The Case against Sexual Revolution-Louise Perry

he sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right?

Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book. Although it would be neither possible nor desirable to turn the clock back to a world of pre-60s sexual mores, she argues that the amoral libertinism and callous disenchantment of liberal feminism and our contemporary hypersexualised culture represent more loss than gain

Single-Sex Schooling, Gender and Educational Performance: Evidence using PISA data

Single-Sex Schooling, Gender and Educational Performance: Evidence using PISA data

The advantages and disadvantages of single-sex schooling continue to be a source of policy and public debate. Previous empirical evidence is somewhat ambiguous, with some studies finding a positive impact of single-sex schooling on education achievement and others finding no differences across school types. The relationship between single-sex schooling on academic outcomes is typically problematic to examine, as in most countries single-sex schools are selective and the numbers attending them are relatively small.