Housework, market work, and 'doing gender' when marital satisfaction declines

The influence of marital satisfaction decline on subsequent chances that married women in Japan allocate more time to market work and/or to housework, conditional on their labor market position, is investigated to test the gender display hypothesis as an alternative to the human capital accumulation hypothesis. The evidence supportive of gender display hypothesis in Japan has implied that the extent to which could economically prepare them, is constrained by gender display in ideological and institutional settings similar to Japan.