Does Children's Age Impact the Division of Housework
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12657643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cordula Zabel (0000-0002-4274-3668, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) a , Nuremberg, corresponding author), Valerie Heintz-Martin (0000-0002-9405-7870, Deutsches Jugendinstitut), Valerie K Heintz-Martin (German Youth Institute (DJI) b , Munich) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 663-685 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Societies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-6696 • E-ISSN: 1469-8307 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14616696.2012.749413 |
| OpenAlex | W1607304647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 34 |
In this study, we investigate couples' division of household tasks by the age of the youngest child, comparing France, eastern Germany, and western Germany. For our analyses, we draw on Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) data. As expected, our findings are that the division of housework is less egalitarian for couples with preschool age children than for childless couples, and these differences are greatest in western Germany. However, we had also expected the division of housework to be more egalitarian again for couples with older children, among whom maternal employment rates are higher than among those with younger children. Our findings confirmed this expectation for western Germany. Surprisingly though, we found that in both eastern Germany and France, the division of housework was actually continuously less egalitarian the older couples' children. An explanation may be that the traditionalizing impact of parenthood unfolds slowly with parenthood duration as couples increasingly yield to societal expectations regarding parental roles. In western Germany, where women reduce their employment most significantly when becoming mothers, employment status effects appear to dominate any other trends associated with the age of the youngest child
Demographic economics · Division of labour · Economic history · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Sociology · Wage · West germany · Western europe · Demography · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |