The authors examined the relationship between source-country gender roles and the gender division of paid and unpaid labor within immigrant families in the host society. Results from Canadian Census of Population (N=497,973) data show that the 2 indicators of source-country gender roles examined-female/male labor activity ratio and female/male secondary education ratio-are both positively associated with immigrant wives' share in their family labor supply and negatively associated with their share in housework. The association between source-country gender roles and women's share in couples' labor activities weakens over time. Moreover, the relationship between source-country female/male labor activity and immigrant couples' gender division of labor is reduced when immigrant women have nonimmigrant husbands, indicating that husband's immigration status matters. © 2015 National Council on Family Relations.

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