M Y Kan
Biographic Data
| ID | 53100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Y Kan |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Kan |
| SIGNATURE | KAN M Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9016-1013 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 662 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Persistent gender gaps in weekend leisure from ages 10 to 17: A multi‐national time diary analysis since 2010
Gender inequalities in leisure time are understudied comparatively in East Asia and the Global South. Most studies often analyze the average of weekend and weekday activities, underestimating the gaps during the days when adolescents have the most discretionary time. Using time diary data from seven countries in the West, Asia, and Africa, we examine gender gaps in weekend leisure time across early and late adolescence (10–17 years). Universally,…
The Interplay of Economic Resources, Family Decision Power, and Gender Ideology in China
Gender ideology, the support for a gendered division of paid work and family responsibilities, is a crucial ideological indicator in investigating gender qualities at the couple level. In contrast, economic dependence measures the actual income disparities at the couple level. The two concepts are intertwined with and mutually reinforce each other within marriage. In this study, we propose a mechanism where intra-family decision power interacts w…
Using Time Use Data to Investigate Gender Inequalities: Enduring Patterns and New Dimensions
Research on the gender revolution highlights the slowing convergence between men and women in paid and unpaid work time. This review considers both seminal studies from the 2000s and more recent analyses, drawing on comparative time‐diary data, to assess progress in narrowing gender gaps in paid work and unpaid domestic work, and to outline future research directions in light of shifting family structures, flexible working arrangements, and evolv…
Generational Differences in Local Identities, Participation in Social Movements, and Migration Intention Among Hong Kong People
We adopt and extend Hirschman's (1970) Exit, Voice, and Loyalty framework to investigate the associations between local identities, participation in social movements, and migration intention in Hong Kong. Data are from random sampled surveys collected from February to April 2021, June to August 2021, and March to June 2022 ( N = 3,003) from people in Hong Kong with the British National (Overseas) status. The findings show that the Hong Konger ide…
Gendered adolescent time use in Japan, Korea, Finland, and the United Kingdom across three decades
BACKGROUNDLittle is known about gendered adolescent time allocation across East Asian and Western contexts across time.East Asian societies have distinct Confucian-based parenting practices and time use.Examining these contexts helps us understand factors contributing to adult gender inequality and the levels of universalisation or divergence in time patterns. METHODSUsing harmonised time diaries, we examine the gendered differences in time spent…
Moving in the time of Covid-19: How did the pandemic situations affect the migration decisions of Hong Kong people
Following mass social protests in 2019 and the enactment of a national security law in 2020 in Hong Kong, a significant proportion of Hong Kong people considered migrating to another country. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic had spread rapidly around the world. This study examines investigate whether the migration intention and the planned timing of migration of Hong Kong people have changed with the COVID-19 pandemic situations both local…
The Gendered Impacts of Partnership and Parenthood on Paid Work and Unpaid Work Time in Great Britain, 1992-2019
Using data from the British Household Panel Study and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (1992-2019), this study investigates the impacts of partnership and parenthood on women's and men's paid work and unpaid work time and how these impacts have changed in the last three decades in Great Britain. We applied two fixed-effect models-one conventional, one novel-with individual constants and slopes to account for the selection and longitudinal chan…
Gender and intergenerational support in east Asian families
This review essay summarizes recent research on the topics of gender inequalities, family obligations, and intergenerational support in East Asia. We introduce four papers featured in a special issue published in 2021 and 2022 in this journal. We conclude by highlighting the continual importance of intergenerational support and family obligations in East Asian societies. We foresee that families and gender relations in East Asia will continue to …
Intergenerational co-residence and young couple’s time use in China
Intergenerational families play an important role in providing informal care and support. However, how the intergenerational living arrangements shape the time allocation of young couples remains unclear, and a more comprehensive analysis, where downward support and upward support are distinguished, is needed. Using the “2008 Chinese Time Use Survey” and the seemingly unrelated regression, we document how paid work time, housework and adult care …
Revisiting the Gender Revolution: Time on Paid Work, Domestic Work, and Total Work in East Asian and Western Societies 1985-2016
We analyze time use data of four East Asian societies and 12 Western countries between 1985 and 2016 to investigate the gender revolution in paid work, domestic work, and total work. The closing of gender gaps in paid work, domestic work, and total work time has stalled in the most recent decade in several countries. The magnitude of the gender gaps, cultural contexts, and welfare policies plays a key role in determining whether the gender revolu…
Do Better-Educated Couples Share Domestic Work More Equitably in Japan? It Depends on the Day of the Week
This paper investigates the gendered division of labor in different types of domestic work within married couples in contemporary Japan. We analyze routine housework such as cleaning and cooking, non-routine housework such as home repairs, and care work by using the 2016 Survey of Time Use and Leisure Activities (Japan’s national time diary survey). Our core analysis is done using ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions on total domestic work ti…
Three-Stage Transitional Theory: Egalitarian Gender Attitudes and Housework Share in 24 Countries
How does the association between gender attitudes and housework share vary across countries and time? We examine the second demographic transition as it unmasks in the association between gender attitudes and housework participation. Using data of the 2002 and 2012 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) for 24 countries, we find that the association between gender attitudes and housework share became stronger over time in most countries, si…
How do Older Adults Spend Their Time? Gender Gaps and Educational Gradients in Time Use in East Asian and Western Countries
This study is the first to document how older adults in East Asian and Western societies spend their time, across four key dimensions of daily life, by respondent’s gender and education level. To do this, we undertook a pioneering effort and harmonized cross-sectional time-use data from East Asian countries (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) with data from the Multinational Time Use Study (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, The Netherlands…
Married Adults Coresiding with Older Parents: Implications for Paid Work and Domestic Workloads
The rise of life expectancy throughout the developed world has meant that older adults play an increasingly important role in their grown-up children's lives. We evaluate whether the intergenerational solidarity theory is useful for understanding the intergenerational transfers of time in Japan given the relatively generous welfare provision for the older adults and the fall in intergenerational coresidence. We apply seemingly unrelated regressio…
Older People, Time Use, and Multigenerational Families in East Asia
Gender gap in housework time: How much do individual resources actually matter
Using data from the 2003–2019 American Time Use Survey Extract (ATUS-X), we analyze the gender gap among heterosexual married Americans of working age in four categories of housework: cleaning, cooking, grocery shopping, and home maintenance. The results show that in the division of housework, the explanatory power of resource factors increased over time. Still, less than a half of the gender gap in housework time could be explained by the gender…
Teenage Time Use and Educational Attainment in Adulthood in Finland
We investigated the role of teenage everyday social ties in educational outcomes by examining the association between teenage time use and educational attainment in adulthood. The sample consisted of young people aged 10-18 from the 1979 Finnish Time Use Survey, and the same respondents' educational attainment later in life recorded from population register data at the year of 40th birthday (n = 366 men and 393 women). We assessed the association…
Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach: Effects of Education on Housework Time in the US and Japan
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 …
Eldercare in Japan: Cluster Analysis of Daily Time-Use Patterns of Elder Caregivers
Using the data of the 2006 Japanese Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities, we perform cluster analysis and identify seven unique patterns of daily time-use patterns of co-resident family elder caregivers: (1) ‘Overworkers’, (2) ‘Full-time Workers’, (3) ‘Part-time Workers’, (4) ‘Intensive Caregivers’, (5) ‘Houseworkers’, (6) ‘Leisurely’, and (7) caregivers, who needed medical attention on the diary day (‘Emergency Diaries’). Our results show t…
Country differences in the link between gender-role attitudes and marital centrality: Evidence from 24 countries
This study investigates factors that could explain why the association between the egalitarian gender-role attitudes and the attitudes toward the importance of marriage (marital centrality) differs across societies. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme for 24 countries in 2002 and 2012 and multilevel modeling, we explore whether the Gender Revolution and the Second Demographic Transition frameworks could explain the country-l…
Gender Gap in Housework: Couples' Data Analysis in Kyrgyzstan
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…
The gender gap in the United States: Housework across racialized groups
Most resource-based theoretical frameworks in housework research are tested and further developed based on â averageâ patterns. Consequently, in countries like the United States these frameworks rely heavily on the patterns among white women in relation to
Hebdomadal Patterns of Compensatory Behaviour: Weekday and Weekend Housework Participation in Canada, 1986-2010
Quantitative housework research focused on aggregate weekly hours, which are inadequate in revealing hebdomadal compensatory behaviour in housework participation because such behaviour is likely to occur on weekends when couples have more time to do housework. This article extends the existing theoretical frameworks by accounting for the hebdomadal patterns in routine and non-routine housework tasks. Employing five time-use waves of the Canadian …
Housework share and fertility preference in four East Asian countries in 2006 and 2012
Previous research suggested that husbandsâ participation in housework is positively associated with fertility choices for both women and men. We tested this association by using data of four East Asian countries
A new family equilibrium? Changing dynamics between the gender division of labor and fertility in Great Britain, 1991-2017
There has recently been a heated debate about the relationship between gender equality and fertility. The macro-level relationship between female labor force participation and fertility has changed from negative to positive. At the micro level, a tradition
Gender Convergence in Domestic Work: Discerning the Effects of Interactional and Institutional Barriers from Large-scale Data
Cross-national trends in paid and unpaid work time over the last 40 years reveal a slow and incomplete convergence of women's and men's work patterns. A simplistic extrapolation would indicate a 70-80 year process of gender convergence, with the year 2010 representing an approximate mid-point. However, in conformity with the expectations of gender theory, time use data show that gender segregation in domestic work is quite persistent over time. W…
Measuring Housework Participation: The Gap between 'Stylised' Questionnaire Estimates and Diary-based Estimates
Measurement Error in Stylized and Diary Data on Time Use
We investigate the nature of measurement error in time-use data. Analysis of “stylized” recall questionnaire estimates and diary-based estimates of housework time from the same respondents of a British survey gives evidence of systematic biases in the stylized estimates and large random errors in both types of estimates. We examine the effect of these measurement problems on three common types of statistical analyses in which the time-use variabl…
Does gender trump money? Housework hours of husbands and wives in Britain
This article uses data from various waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1993-2003) to examine the associations of housework hours with relative income and gender-role attitudes. In particular, it tests the hypothesis that the effect of relative income on housework time will be diminished due to one's gendered expectations. Findings show both men's and women's housework hours are significantly decreased with increases in their amount of i…
Work Orientation and Wives' Employment Careers: An Evaluation of Hakim's Preference Theory
This article uses work-life history data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2001) to examine married/cohabiting women's work histories and their gender-role attitudes. Findings suggest that women's employment careers are affected by both preferences and constraints. The presence of dependent children poses less of a barrier to full-time work for women with work-centered attitudes than other women. Nevertheless, women having a continuou…
Revisiting the Gender Revolution: Time on Paid Work, Domestic Work, and Total Work in East Asian and Western Societies 1985-2016
We analyze time use data of four East Asian societies and 12 Western countries between 1985 and 2016 to investigate the gender revolution in paid work, domestic work, and total work. The closing of gender gaps in paid work, domestic work, and total work time has stalled in the most recent decade in several countries. The magnitude of the gender gaps, cultural contexts, and welfare policies plays a key role in determining whether the gender revolu…
Domestic division of labour and fertility preference in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
Research on Western countries suggests that how couples share housework responsibilities has a significant impact on their fertility choices. The gender revolution framework offers an explanation for this relationship, but so far its applicability has not
Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-Political Context
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…
Resource Bargaining and Gender Display in Housework and Care Work in Modern China
This paper analyses data from the Chinese Women’s Status Survey 2010 to investigate how dual-earning couples allocate routine housework, nonroutine housework, and care work between spouses based on their relative income and working time. Women spend more time on housework and take on a higher amount of routine domestic work (e.g., cooking and cleaning) and care work (e.g., childcare). Men share a higher proportion of nonroutine domestic work (e.g…
Changing Patterns in the Allocation of Savings, Investments and Debts within Couple Relationships
Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) from 1995 to 2005 we examine the nature of the allocation of savings, investments and debts between heterosexual couple members, how these vary by individual and household characteristics, and how these patterns vary over a ten-year time horizon. We find savings are more commonly held in joint names than investments or debts and there is evidence of an increasing independence in financial a…
Who Is Doing the Housework in Multicultural Britain
There is an extensive literature on the domestic division of labour within married and cohabiting couples and its relationship to gender equality within the household and the labour market. Most UK research focuses on the white majority population or is ethnicity 'blind', effectively ignoring potentially significant intersections between gender, ethnicity, socio-economic position and domestic labour. Quantitative empirical research on the domesti…
Hebdomadal Patterns of Compensatory Behaviour: Weekday and Weekend Housework Participation in Canada, 1986-2010
Quantitative housework research focused on aggregate weekly hours, which are inadequate in revealing hebdomadal compensatory behaviour in housework participation because such behaviour is likely to occur on weekends when couples have more time to do housework. This article extends the existing theoretical frameworks by accounting for the hebdomadal patterns in routine and non-routine housework tasks. Employing five time-use waves of the Canadian …
A new family equilibrium? Changing dynamics between the gender division of labor and fertility in Great Britain, 1991-2017
There has recently been a heated debate about the relationship between gender equality and fertility. The macro-level relationship between female labor force participation and fertility has changed from negative to positive. At the micro level, a tradition
The Political Values and Choices of Husbands and Wives
This article applies theoretical ideas in the literature on the household division of labor to the analysis of partners' political preferences. We regress men's and women's political party preferences on their own and their partners' characteristics using data from the 1991 British Household Panel Survey (N =2,846). We find a symmetrical pattern of influence: Men and women both give greatest weight to their own political values but also accord so…
Gender gap in housework time: How much do individual resources actually matter
Using data from the 2003–2019 American Time Use Survey Extract (ATUS-X), we analyze the gender gap among heterosexual married Americans of working age in four categories of housework: cleaning, cooking, grocery shopping, and home maintenance. The results show that in the division of housework, the explanatory power of resource factors increased over time. Still, less than a half of the gender gap in housework time could be explained by the gender…
Housework share and fertility preference in four East Asian countries in 2006 and 2012
Previous research suggested that husbandsâ participation in housework is positively associated with fertility choices for both women and men. We tested this association by using data of four East Asian countries
Gender Gap in Housework: Couples' Data Analysis in Kyrgyzstan
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…
The Gendered Impacts of Partnership and Parenthood on Paid Work and Unpaid Work Time in Great Britain, 1992-2019
Using data from the British Household Panel Study and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (1992-2019), this study investigates the impacts of partnership and parenthood on women's and men's paid work and unpaid work time and how these impacts have changed in the last three decades in Great Britain. We applied two fixed-effect models-one conventional, one novel-with individual constants and slopes to account for the selection and longitudinal chan…
Country differences in the link between gender-role attitudes and marital centrality: Evidence from 24 countries
This study investigates factors that could explain why the association between the egalitarian gender-role attitudes and the attitudes toward the importance of marriage (marital centrality) differs across societies. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme for 24 countries in 2002 and 2012 and multilevel modeling, we explore whether the Gender Revolution and the Second Demographic Transition frameworks could explain the country-l…
Calibrating Stylised Time Estimates Using UK Diary Data
Three-Stage Transitional Theory: Egalitarian Gender Attitudes and Housework Share in 24 Countries
How does the association between gender attitudes and housework share vary across countries and time? We examine the second demographic transition as it unmasks in the association between gender attitudes and housework participation. Using data of the 2002 and 2012 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) for 24 countries, we find that the association between gender attitudes and housework share became stronger over time in most countries, si…
Moving in the time of Covid-19: How did the pandemic situations affect the migration decisions of Hong Kong people
Following mass social protests in 2019 and the enactment of a national security law in 2020 in Hong Kong, a significant proportion of Hong Kong people considered migrating to another country. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic had spread rapidly around the world. This study examines investigate whether the migration intention and the planned timing of migration of Hong Kong people have changed with the COVID-19 pandemic situations both local…
How do Older Adults Spend Their Time? Gender Gaps and Educational Gradients in Time Use in East Asian and Western Countries
This study is the first to document how older adults in East Asian and Western societies spend their time, across four key dimensions of daily life, by respondent’s gender and education level. To do this, we undertook a pioneering effort and harmonized cross-sectional time-use data from East Asian countries (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) with data from the Multinational Time Use Study (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, The Netherlands…
Married Adults Coresiding with Older Parents: Implications for Paid Work and Domestic Workloads
The rise of life expectancy throughout the developed world has meant that older adults play an increasingly important role in their grown-up children's lives. We evaluate whether the intergenerational solidarity theory is useful for understanding the intergenerational transfers of time in Japan given the relatively generous welfare provision for the older adults and the fall in intergenerational coresidence. We apply seemingly unrelated regressio…
Using Time Use Data to Investigate Gender Inequalities: Enduring Patterns and New Dimensions
Research on the gender revolution highlights the slowing convergence between men and women in paid and unpaid work time. This review considers both seminal studies from the 2000s and more recent analyses, drawing on comparative time‐diary data, to assess progress in narrowing gender gaps in paid work and unpaid domestic work, and to outline future research directions in light of shifting family structures, flexible working arrangements, and evolv…
The Political Values and Choices of Husbands and Wives
This article applies theoretical ideas in the literature on the household division of labor to the analysis of partners' political preferences. We regress men's and women's political party preferences on their own and their partners' characteristics using data from the 1991 British Household Panel Survey (N =2,846). We find a symmetrical pattern of influence: Men and women both give greatest weight to their own political values but also accord so…
Work Orientation and Wives' Employment Careers: An Evaluation of Hakim's Preference Theory
This article uses work-life history data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2001) to examine married/cohabiting women's work histories and their gender-role attitudes. Findings suggest that women's employment careers are affected by both preferences and constraints. The presence of dependent children poses less of a barrier to full-time work for women with work-centered attitudes than other women. Nevertheless, women having a continuou…
Measurement Error in Stylized and Diary Data on Time Use
We investigate the nature of measurement error in time-use data. Analysis of “stylized” recall questionnaire estimates and diary-based estimates of housework time from the same respondents of a British survey gives evidence of systematic biases in the stylized estimates and large random errors in both types of estimates. We examine the effect of these measurement problems on three common types of statistical analyses in which the time-use variabl…
Does gender trump money? Housework hours of husbands and wives in Britain
This article uses data from various waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1993-2003) to examine the associations of housework hours with relative income and gender-role attitudes. In particular, it tests the hypothesis that the effect of relative income on housework time will be diminished due to one's gendered expectations. Findings show both men's and women's housework hours are significantly decreased with increases in their amount of i…
Measuring Housework Participation: The Gap between 'Stylised' Questionnaire Estimates and Diary-based Estimates
Calibrating Stylised Time Estimates Using UK Diary Data
Gender Convergence in Domestic Work: Discerning the Effects of Interactional and Institutional Barriers from Large-scale Data
Cross-national trends in paid and unpaid work time over the last 40 years reveal a slow and incomplete convergence of women's and men's work patterns. A simplistic extrapolation would indicate a 70-80 year process of gender convergence, with the year 2010 representing an approximate mid-point. However, in conformity with the expectations of gender theory, time use data show that gender segregation in domestic work is quite persistent over time. W…
Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-Political Context
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…
Changing Patterns in the Allocation of Savings, Investments and Debts within Couple Relationships
Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) from 1995 to 2005 we examine the nature of the allocation of savings, investments and debts between heterosexual couple members, how these vary by individual and household characteristics, and how these patterns vary over a ten-year time horizon. We find savings are more commonly held in joint names than investments or debts and there is evidence of an increasing independence in financial a…
Domestic division of labour and fertility preference in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
Research on Western countries suggests that how couples share housework responsibilities has a significant impact on their fertility choices. The gender revolution framework offers an explanation for this relationship, but so far its applicability has not
Who Is Doing the Housework in Multicultural Britain
There is an extensive literature on the domestic division of labour within married and cohabiting couples and its relationship to gender equality within the household and the labour market. Most UK research focuses on the white majority population or is ethnicity 'blind', effectively ignoring potentially significant intersections between gender, ethnicity, socio-economic position and domestic labour. Quantitative empirical research on the domesti…
Resource Bargaining and Gender Display in Housework and Care Work in Modern China
This paper analyses data from the Chinese Women’s Status Survey 2010 to investigate how dual-earning couples allocate routine housework, nonroutine housework, and care work between spouses based on their relative income and working time. Women spend more time on housework and take on a higher amount of routine domestic work (e.g., cooking and cleaning) and care work (e.g., childcare). Men share a higher proportion of nonroutine domestic work (e.g…
Housework share and fertility preference in four East Asian countries in 2006 and 2012
Previous research suggested that husbandsâ participation in housework is positively associated with fertility choices for both women and men. We tested this association by using data of four East Asian countries
A new family equilibrium? Changing dynamics between the gender division of labor and fertility in Great Britain, 1991-2017
There has recently been a heated debate about the relationship between gender equality and fertility. The macro-level relationship between female labor force participation and fertility has changed from negative to positive. At the micro level, a tradition
Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach: Effects of Education on Housework Time in the US and Japan
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 …
Eldercare in Japan: Cluster Analysis of Daily Time-Use Patterns of Elder Caregivers
Using the data of the 2006 Japanese Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities, we perform cluster analysis and identify seven unique patterns of daily time-use patterns of co-resident family elder caregivers: (1) ‘Overworkers’, (2) ‘Full-time Workers’, (3) ‘Part-time Workers’, (4) ‘Intensive Caregivers’, (5) ‘Houseworkers’, (6) ‘Leisurely’, and (7) caregivers, who needed medical attention on the diary day (‘Emergency Diaries’). Our results show t…
Country differences in the link between gender-role attitudes and marital centrality: Evidence from 24 countries
This study investigates factors that could explain why the association between the egalitarian gender-role attitudes and the attitudes toward the importance of marriage (marital centrality) differs across societies. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme for 24 countries in 2002 and 2012 and multilevel modeling, we explore whether the Gender Revolution and the Second Demographic Transition frameworks could explain the country-l…
Gender Gap in Housework: Couples' Data Analysis in Kyrgyzstan
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…
The gender gap in the United States: Housework across racialized groups
Most resource-based theoretical frameworks in housework research are tested and further developed based on â averageâ patterns. Consequently, in countries like the United States these frameworks rely heavily on the patterns among white women in relation to
Hebdomadal Patterns of Compensatory Behaviour: Weekday and Weekend Housework Participation in Canada, 1986-2010
Quantitative housework research focused on aggregate weekly hours, which are inadequate in revealing hebdomadal compensatory behaviour in housework participation because such behaviour is likely to occur on weekends when couples have more time to do housework. This article extends the existing theoretical frameworks by accounting for the hebdomadal patterns in routine and non-routine housework tasks. Employing five time-use waves of the Canadian …
Do Better-Educated Couples Share Domestic Work More Equitably in Japan? It Depends on the Day of the Week
This paper investigates the gendered division of labor in different types of domestic work within married couples in contemporary Japan. We analyze routine housework such as cleaning and cooking, non-routine housework such as home repairs, and care work by using the 2016 Survey of Time Use and Leisure Activities (Japan’s national time diary survey). Our core analysis is done using ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions on total domestic work ti…
Three-Stage Transitional Theory: Egalitarian Gender Attitudes and Housework Share in 24 Countries
How does the association between gender attitudes and housework share vary across countries and time? We examine the second demographic transition as it unmasks in the association between gender attitudes and housework participation. Using data of the 2002 and 2012 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) for 24 countries, we find that the association between gender attitudes and housework share became stronger over time in most countries, si…
How do Older Adults Spend Their Time? Gender Gaps and Educational Gradients in Time Use in East Asian and Western Countries
This study is the first to document how older adults in East Asian and Western societies spend their time, across four key dimensions of daily life, by respondent’s gender and education level. To do this, we undertook a pioneering effort and harmonized cross-sectional time-use data from East Asian countries (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) with data from the Multinational Time Use Study (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, The Netherlands…
Married Adults Coresiding with Older Parents: Implications for Paid Work and Domestic Workloads
The rise of life expectancy throughout the developed world has meant that older adults play an increasingly important role in their grown-up children's lives. We evaluate whether the intergenerational solidarity theory is useful for understanding the intergenerational transfers of time in Japan given the relatively generous welfare provision for the older adults and the fall in intergenerational coresidence. We apply seemingly unrelated regressio…
Older People, Time Use, and Multigenerational Families in East Asia
Economics (28 works) · Demographic economics (27 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (25 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (24 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Demography (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (12 works) · China (11 works)