Unfolding Patterns of Unpaid Household Work in Latin America

Amarante, Verónica; Rossel, Cecilia

doi:10.1080/13545701.2017.1344776

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“…For example, in Ghana, Heady (2003) finds that work outside the household has a substantial effect on learning achievement because of exhaustion or a diversion of interest away from academic concerns. In Latin America, unpaid work carried out within the family is also widespread and a likely barrier to learning (Amarante and Rossel, 2018).…”

Section: Review Of Child Work and Learningmentioning

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The effect of working on students’ learning in Latin America: Evidence from the learning survey TERCE

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Akyeampong

2019

International Journal of Educational Development

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There is limited comparable and robust research on the effect of children's work on learning for developing countries. We use matching techniques relying on rich information from the Third Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (TERCE) for 15 Latin American countries and a bounding approach to account for unobservables. We find that work leads to 9 (math) and 13 (reading) points less in achievement for sixth grade students, with a significant variation within the learning distribution and between countries. Policies should prioritise low achievers, those in paid employment living in large urban areas, and factors driving work allocations within families.

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Section: Review Of Child Work and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effect of working on students’ learning in Latin America: Evidence from the learning survey TERCE

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Akyeampong

2019

International Journal of Educational Development

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“…They rarely venture outside of the Western world: Canada (Guppy and Luongo, 2015;Guppy et al, 2019;Schieman et al, 2018), United States (Pepin et al, 2018), European Union (Gimenez-Nadal and Sevilla, 2012; Kan et al, 2011), and Australia (Baxter, 2002;Craig et al, 2016;Tai and Baxter, 2018). Only a few studies focused on other regions such as East Asia (Kan and He, 2018;Kan et al, 2019), Latin America (Amarante and Rossel, 2017), or Central Asia (Osmonaliev et al, 2016;Walker, 2013). Analyzing housework in heterogeneous cultural contexts is necessary to test the applicability of theoretical frameworks in a variety of cultural and economic contexts.…”

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Gender Gap in Housework: Couples’ Data Analysis in Kyrgyzstan

Kolpashnikova

Kan

2020

Journal of Comparative Family Studies

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We analyze couples’ time-use diaries from the 2012–2013 Life in Kyrgyzstan data. Using the pooled Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method, we test the relative resources, time availability, absolute resources, and gender-centered frameworks in their ability to explain gender differences in housework participation among Kyrgyzstani women and men. The results show that among the three resource-based approaches, the time availability models are the most potent in accounting for the gender gap in housework, followed by the relative resources framework. Both frameworks emphasize household bargaining processes and power differentials between spouses. The findings suggest that among Kyrgyzstani couples, partners’ time availability and, with it, bargaining power play an important role in the division of housework tasks. In contrast, absolute resources can account only for a small portion of the gender differences in housework participation.

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“…Ciertas investigadoras (Amarante y Rossel, 2017;Martínez, 2005) señalan que en América Latina la investigación comparativa sobre la distribución del trabajo doméstico y de cuidados es más reciente y fragmentada que en Estados Unidos y Europa. En los últimos años, el desarrollo de las encuestas de uso del tiempo en la mayoría de países latinoamericanos, y los estudios auspiciados por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), junto a los institutos de estadística nacionales, han permitido generar información relevante para evidenciar las desigualdades de género en el tiempo dedicado al trabajo doméstico y de cuidados no remunerado (Rico y Robles, 2016;Batthyány, 2015a;Calero et al, 2015;Rodríguez, 2015;Vaca-Trigo, 2015;Aguirre y Ferrari, 2015Calderon, 2013;Duran y Milosajevic, 2012;Budlender, 2010;Espejo et al, 2010;Esquivel, 2010;Aguirre, 2009;Arriagada, 2007;Salvador, 2007).…”

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El trabajo doméstico y de cuidados en las parejas de doble ingreso. Análisis comparativo entre España, Argentina y Chile

2018

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Domestic and care work in dual-earner couples: Comparative analysis of Spain, Argentina and Chile This article analyses the unpaid household work gender gap in Spain, Argentina and Chile. Specifically, this study explores the distribution of domestic and care work among household members and examines in depth the relevant factors of women's and men's participation in this work. Employing time use surveys (Spanish EET-2010, Argentinian TRN-2013 and Chilean ENUT-2015), a regression model is estimated for a sample of dual-income couples. Additionally, the study analyses the macrosocial factors that affect the gender gap. The results show that women perform 70% of domestic and care work and confirm the weakness of the variables related to relative resources, thus suggesting the need to incorporate the gender role perspective and structural, institutional, and cultural factors in explaining gender gaps in unpaid work. The relevance of women's time availability and income contribution points to the importance of actions aimed at promoting the economic independence of women and strengthening legal frameworks that protect equal pay conditions for women. These elements are key to explaining men's and women's decisions on how to distribute their time between paid and unpaid work in Spain, Argentina and Chile.

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Unfolding Patterns of Unpaid Household Work in Latin America

Cited by 49 publications

References 37 publications

The effect of working on students’ learning in Latin America: Evidence from the learning survey TERCE

The effect of working on students’ learning in Latin America: Evidence from the learning survey TERCE

Gender Gap in Housework: Couples’ Data Analysis in Kyrgyzstan

El trabajo doméstico y de cuidados en las parejas de doble ingreso. Análisis comparativo entre España, Argentina y Chile

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