Housework share and fertility preference in four East Asian countries in 2006 and 2012

Kan, Man-Yee; Hertog, Ekaterina; Kolpashnikova, Kamila

doi:10.4054/demres.2019.41.35

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“…Although the existence of cultural idiosyncrasies in the socialisation process is not contested, the previous literature asserts that education is more conducive to gender-egalitarian ideology within most cultural contexts, and thus works in East Asia in the same general direction as in Western countries (Ishii-Kuntz 2005;Ishii-Kuntz 2009). Still, the contradicting results on the association between education and housework participation are present in the literature on Japanese women but have not been discussed theoretically (Kan et al 2019;Ueda 2005).…”

Section: Education As a Gendering Processmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Substantial progress has been made to enact equal opportunities legislation in the labour market in both the US and Japan. Nevertheless, in both countries, most housework is still performed by women (Inaba 1998;Ishii-Kuntz 2009;Kan et al 2019;Matsuda 2001;Nishioka and Yamauchi 2017;Tsuya 2000). In the US, Sayer (2010) demonstrates that the trends in housework consistently show that the amount of housework decreased for women and increased for men between 1970s and 2000s.…”

Section: Previous Research In Japan and The Usmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the country differences should be observed in the amount of housework time but not in the association between education and housework (Inaba 1998;Ishii-Kuntz 2009;Kan et al 2019;Matsuda 2001;Nishioka and Yamauchi 2017;Tsuya 2000). Thus, we expect the following: Hypothesis 2 (H2).…”

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Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach: Effects of Education on Housework Time in the US and Japan

Kolpashnikova

Kan

2020

Social Sciences

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We compare the association between educational attainment and housework participation among single and married women in Japan and the US. Using the cross-sectional time-use diaries from the 2006 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the 2006 Japanese Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities (STULA) and unconditional quantile regressions (UQR), we test whether educational attainment is associated with less time spent on housework in Japan compared to the US. We find that this assumption stands only for American women and non-married Japanese women. However, married Japanese women are unlikely to reduce participation in housework with an increase in their educational level. Married Japanese women are more likely to do more housework proportionately to the level of their education. The findings reveal the presence of a marriage penalty among highly educated Japanese women. In Japan, the institute of marriage places higher expectations regarding women’s housework participation on married women with higher levels of education, thereby penalising Japanese women with higher educational attainments. Our findings illustrate that the tenets of the resource-based and gender-centred frameworks developed based on the empirical findings in Western countries cannot always directly apply to the patterns observed in East Asia.

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Section: Education As a Gendering Processmentioning

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Section: Previous Research In Japan and The Usmentioning

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Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach: Effects of Education on Housework Time in the US and Japan

Kolpashnikova

Kan

2020

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“…More recently, signs of similar changes have begun to emerge in postreform urban China (Lesthaeghe 2010; Yu and Xie 2015;Jones 2010). The long-term implications of these changes for universal marriage have yet to be examined for a region where more than one fifth of the world population resides and, unlike in Western countries, the postponement of marriage has been accompanied neither by dramatic increases in unmarried cohabitation (Raymo et al 2015) nor by significant changes in gender norms (Kan, Hertog, and Kolpashnikova 2019). The aim of this paper is twofold: First, we characterize prevailing marriage matching norms by age and educational attainment across four East Asian countries using largescale population data.…”

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Demographic change and increasing late singlehood in East Asia, 2010–2050

Esteve¹,

Kashyap²,

Román³

et al. 2020

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BACKGROUND Marriage is a central institution for social reproduction in East Asia. Until the 1970s and 1980s, marriage across much of East Asia was early and universal. In recent decades, though, this pattern has begun shifting to one of later and less marriage. OBJECTIVE We explore the long-term implications for universal marriage patterns of future demographic change in marriage markets in the context of prevailing marriage norms by projecting trends in late singlehood (ages 45 to 49) in four East Asian societies (China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan). METHODS We estimate forces of attraction to characterize marriage matching norms by age and education across these different societies by drawing on large-scale population data. Next, we develop counterfactual scenarios in which we apply contemporary norms to future population structures in these societies, as well as scenarios based on more gender

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“…23 Recently, there has been an increase in women's participation in paid work in Japan, China, and South Korea, creating conflict between their domestic and employment roles. 24 As a country 'dominated by Confucian ideology', 25 the gender division of household labour in Vietnam reflects the resilience of traditional family values and ongoing resistance to broader, dramatic transformations. 26 A study by Meejung Chin on family attitudes and gender role divisions in Vietnam and South Korea shows that patriarchal norms are preserved to a larger extent in Vietnam than in South Korea.…”

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Gender role attitudes and the division of housework in young married couples in northern Vietnam

Vu¹

2021

J. Southeast Asian stud.

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This article investigates the gender role attitudes and domestic division of labour of young couples in northern Vietnam. Based on separate interviews with 30 couples living in rural and urban areas, it explores young people's thoughts about the roles of a wife and a husband and how these translate into their allocation of housework. Analysis of the interviews indicates that the perceptions and expectations of young people remain influenced by traditional gender ideology, in that wives are still considered mainly responsible for housework. However, in practice, gender roles are highly flexible and demonstrate significant mutual support. In addition, the similarities or differences between spouses in terms of gender role attitudes contribute to levels of relative satisfaction regarding the current division of labour in households.

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Housework share and fertility preference in four East Asian countries in 2006 and 2012

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach: Effects of Education on Housework Time in the US and Japan

Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach: Effects of Education on Housework Time in the US and Japan

Demographic change and increasing late singlehood in East Asia, 2010–2050

Gender role attitudes and the division of housework in young married couples in northern Vietnam

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