Social norms, gender identity, and high-earning wives’ housework behavior in Japan

An identity economics framework

Bibliographic Data

ID6172425
AuthorsJun Ando (0000-0002-2441-7957, Niigata University of International and Information Studies, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume41
Issue1-2
Pages36-51
Publication date2015-04-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Japanese Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2329-1958 • E-ISSN: 2329-194X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2329194x.2015.1105675
OpenAlexW2201287922
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited22

This article takes an identity economics perspective to examine the housework behavior of Japanese wives of couples where both spouses work full-time, based on panel data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers in 2000–2008. First, we show that Japanese wives are reluctant to reduce their housework time even when they out-earn their husbands. Second, there is no negative linear relationship between wives’ absolute income and the time they allocate to unpaid work. Last, we find no evidence that low-earning wives reduce their time spent on housework more rapidly than high-earning wives in Japan

Gender identity · Identity (music · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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