for all of the subscales (Shehan & Lee, 1990). Reliability for the instrument was lower in

the current investigation, with an internal consistency of .51 calculated for the family and

household tasks subscale and an internal consistency of .88 calculated for the child-

related tasks subscale; Cronbach's alpha for the global measure of role dissatisfaction

was .64. As with similar measures of couples' divisions of labor, parents' role satisfaction

and fathers' involvement in family tasks as measured by the "Who Does What?" are

associated with higher levels of marital satisfaction (P. A. Cowan & Cowan, 1988),

demonstrating the measure's convergent and predictive validity.

 Scoring for the "Who Does What?" questionnaire does not provide for finer

distinctions to be made regarding the division of labor in terms of time needed to

complete each task or the relative frequency with which each task is completed; for

example, one item assessing "planning and preparing meals" (a task involving

forethought and which is completed on a daily basis) is essentially equivalent to another

item assessing "taking out the garbage" (a less-frequently required task). However, the

questionnaire does contain items describing planning, maintaining connections with

others, and making decisions and choices that all reflect the "mental labor" Walzer (1996,

1998) noted is commonly overlooked. It also is written for parents of infants, with items

measuring specific aspects of caring for a young child that are often omitted or simplified

in other measures of domestic labor. Additionally, the questionnaire's 9th grade reading-

level as determined by the SMOG Reading Formula or 6th grade reading-level as

determined by the Flesch-Kincaid Formula, suggests it is appropriate for a community

sample.