Housework conflict and divorce

A Multi-Level Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID2373637
AuthorsL Ruppanner (0000-0002-6111-1914, University of Hawaii at Hilo, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume26
Issue4
Pages638-656
Publication date2012-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0950017012445106
OpenAlexW1988586904
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited46

Macro-level measures of divorce have important consequences on individual-level housework dynamics. Previous research has focused on the relationship between access to divorce at the country level and divisions of housework at the individual level. The article extends this literature by investigating the relationship between individual-level housework conflict and country-level measures of divorce and women's bargaining power. Using European Social Survey data (n = 18,560), it tests the multi-level relationship between individual-level housework conflict and country-level rates of the following four measures: marriage, divorce, full-time female labour force participation and the female-male wage gap. The multi-level results demonstrate that both men and women report more housework conflict in countries with higher rates of women's full-time labour force participation and divorce, and women report less conflict in countries with higher rates of marriage

Bargaining power · Demographic economics · Economics · Labour economics · Macro level · Micro level · Time-use survey · Wage · Work (physics · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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