The Division of Labour Within Households: Men’s Increased Participation?

Oinas, Tomi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76463-4_3

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“…La deuxième phase, qui n'est pas complétée, fait référence à l'implication des hommes dans le travail gratuit. Même si les hommes s'investissent de plus en plus dans les soins aux enfants (Oinas, 2018 ;Tremblay et Lazzari-Dodeler, 2015), l'articulation travail-famille demeure plus difficile pour les femmes, qui portent davantage le poids du travail gratuit. Aussi, même si le chevauchement entre les rôles exigés par la vie professionnelle et la vie familiale est traité sous différentes perspectives -notamment en termes d'enrichissement -la désignation du conflit est la plus courante (Bennani et Bertal, 2020).…”

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L’effet paradoxal de la pandémie sur l’articulation emploi-famille : le cas du Québec

Mathieu¹,

Tremblay²

2021

interventionseconomiques

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L’effet paradoxal de la pandémie sur l’articulation emploi-famille : le cas du Québec

Mathieu¹,

Tremblay²

2021

interventionseconomiques

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“…Moving beyond the individual level, existing literature argues that within households a higher-educated male who cohabits with a heterosexual partner is more likely to be involved in more housework compared with a lower-educated one. Hence, given that couples are usually educationally matched, especially in economically developed countries, women within couples that are higher educated, spend less time on housework compared to the lower-educated ones (Coltrane, 2000;Gershuny, 2000;Oinas, 2018). Nevertheless, as with paid work, a specific gender pattern seems to exist that categorises types of housework as 'masculine' or 'feminine' even in high-income gender-egalitarian regimes, such as the Nordic countries (Tammelin, 2018b).…”

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Educational Attainment and Gender Differences in Work–Life Balance for Couples across Europe: A Contextual Perspective

Kromydas

2020

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The current article aims to explain the interrelationships between the educational attainment of individuals living in households with heterosexual partners, their work–life balance (WLB) and the macro-economic climate of the country they live in, using data from the European Social Survey. WLB is a complex concept, as it is not only determined by factors related to someone’s employment or domestic work and childcare responsibilities, but also by decisions informed by personal experiences and circumstances, subjective perceptions and preferences. Moreover, in households with cohabiting partners, this decision-making process involves certain compromises where financial incentives, interests, gender and power dynamics play an important role. Since educational attainment is positively related to labour market outcomes, such as employment and wages, while at the same time more women are participating in education and the labour market, the gender conflict on the division of work and time within households intensifies and traditional gender roles are challenged. WLB is at the heart of this conflict operating as a mechanism through which division of work and time is reconciled on the individual and household level. Results from the current article reveal great heterogeneity between the 17 European countries examined. Perhaps surprisingly, educational attainment can have a detrimental effect on the WLB of spouses and cohabiting partners, especially for women whose level of WLB seems also more sensitive to fluctuations of the macro-economic climate of the country they live in. However, there is an indication that when an economy goes into recession, higher education has a cushioning effect on female’s WLB compared to relatively better economic times.

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“…The first group has been extracted from recent home economics and involves time constraints as well as resource bargaining approaches, and the second group involves the role of gender, attitude, expectations, and other social factors such as gender ideologies. Oinas (2018) believed that the rational choice-based theories were widely used in economics, but gender ideology-based ones were used in sociology (Oinas, 2018).…”

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“…The resource bargaining approach assumes that the housework distribution depends on how much a wife/husband has access to different resources such as education, job, and income implying that the relative (not absolute) resources are important. It seems that the wife-husband implicit negotiations on the family inputs and outputs are what create the division of family labor (Oinas, 2018). Couples follow their individual preferences including maximum income and bargain power as well as common preferences (maximum family income).…”

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“…Societies have changed because women have had considerable access to schools and education centers, been increasingly present in the labor market, and tried to achieve equal opportunities linked to their social rights (Sayer, 2010). According to Oinas (2018), quantitative studies that use the role of the relative resources, time constraints, and ideology/sex to explain the division of family labor dominate the empirical research (Oinas, 2018). Although some studies have tried to explain the division of family labor, some other have examined how working, earning, and mutual life satisfaction can be influenced by the couple job (Shelton and John, 1996;Oshio et al, 2013;Qian and Sayer, 2015;Maas et al, 2018).…”

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A hybrid FCM-VIKOR approach to family economic policy-making

Loghman

Moini

Pishvaee

2019

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Purpose This paper aims to present a systematic methodology to study different economic labor policies and their impacts on women and families. As women entered into the labor market, the traditional division of family labor vanished. Now, families need to make the best decision to both improve the family economy and enhance family's main functions. In addition, the government is responsible toward the consequences of the family policies. Design/methodology/approach The content analysis, fuzzy cognitive map, scenario-planning and vlse kriterijumsk optimizacija kompromisno resenje (VIKOR) have been combined to deal with the studied problem. As a case study, the focus has been on the Iranian family. According to the developed methodology, different family-oriented policies have been simulated and their results are analyzed. Findings Findings show, considering the effects that the division of the couples’ labor has on meeting the material/non-material family needs, the best policy is to support women's home-based businesses. This way, the economic factors will be improved, the couples’ dependence on meeting their needs will be more favorably affected and the family unity will be strengthened. Originality/value In this study, “family” has been analyzed as a single socioeconomic system. Never have the family economic studies been analyzed with a systematic approach by considering all the economic and non-economic factors together. This objective can be realized by applying the methodology proposed in this research because it can help to predict the consequences of any policy toward the family and provide a platform for proposing better policies and making the related decisions in this area.

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The Division of Labour Within Households: Men’s Increased Participation?

Cited by 7 publications

References 55 publications

L’effet paradoxal de la pandémie sur l’articulation emploi-famille : le cas du Québec

L’effet paradoxal de la pandémie sur l’articulation emploi-famille : le cas du Québec

Educational Attainment and Gender Differences in Work–Life Balance for Couples across Europe: A Contextual Perspective

A hybrid FCM-VIKOR approach to family economic policy-making

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