But there is also evidence for paid work being a burden to women. Time budget studies also show that married women who have full-time employment do more hours of work which would include housework. This is more work than those that are simply doing housework. The studies also show women who do part-time work and housework being in-between that. Gershuny (1994) says this is evidence of lagged change.
In terms of household income it is unlikely to be shared equally. Changes have happened with regard to the allocation of household finances. The figures of men who keep the wage and give a housekeeping allowance to the wife has gone down with more women being involved in the control of household finance. From research that has been carried out it seems that there are many households which show equal sharing of household income and a rise in female managed systems. This appears to show that women are doing much more financial decision making. But some of this research is to do with poor households and Vogler ("94), who is a studier of this, says that its hard to say that this actually states that there has been an increase in female power according to a review he did on the literature available that deals with organisation of money in marriage. Him and Pahl ("93) say that there has been no real change.
An example of this gender role-reversal is shown in "Husbands at Home" by Jane Wheelock. It's called "Mr and Mrs Turner: an exchanged-role family". The Turners have 4 children altogether, with a son at high school and a daughter who lives at home but works, as well as a foster son who is 13. Mrs Turner works full-time as a nursery nurse and her husband used to work as a sales person until 11 months ago. Both are aged around their 40s. The Turners are a example of an exchanged role family, and one that shows how gender doesn't mean anything anymore. Mrs Turner does two of the major house tasks - shopping and hoovering.