Abstract
Milkie, Melissa A., Liana C. Sayer, Kei Nomaguchi, and Hope Xu Yan. 2025. “Who’s Doing the Housework and Childcare in America Now? Differential Convergence in Twenty-First-Century Gender Gaps in Home Tasks.” Socius. doi:10.1177/23780231251314667.
This article has been updated because of a coding error in the original publication. In the American Time Use Survey data, the variable “average weekly paid work hours” has missing values for 3.56% of cases, which are coded as 9995. These values were not recoded to missing (.) before conducting the ordinary least squares regression and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis. As a result, the coefficients, standard errors, and significance levels reported in Table 4, Table 5A, Table 5B, Table 5C, Figure 2, and Appendix Table A5 were incorrect in the original article.
After correcting the coding error and rerunning the analysis, the affected tables and figures, and a few sentences describing the association of paid work hours in the “Results” section were updated accordingly. This error has no impact on the key findings of the study. The two minor changes in the results are relevant only to the weekly paid work hours variable that had missing values miscoded: (1) longer hours of paid work were associated with less time spent on all types of housework, particularly among married women (p. 7), and (2) for married women, the reduced housework time between 2003–2005 and 2022–2023 can in part be attributed to their increased weekly work hours over time (p. 17).