The Parenthood Effect on Gender Inequality: Explaining the Change in Paid and Domestic Work When British Couples Become Parents
The Parenthood Effect on Gender Inequality: Explaining the Change in Paid and Domestic Work When British Couples Become Parents
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DOI：
10.1093/esr/jcr041
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Schober, Pia S.
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作者：
Schober, Pia S.
这项研究考察了男女的产前特征对于他们在转变为人父母后如何改变花在家务和有偿工作上的时间的重要性。我们把伴侣的收入和性别角色态度作为解释因素。以前的研究探讨了妇女的相对收入和双方的性别角色态度对于新父母之间的劳动分工变得更加传统的程度的重要性。我们通过包括女性的绝对收入来扩展这一文献，考虑到英国正规育儿的非常高的成本，这可能是至关重要的。对310对夫妇的统计分析基于英国家庭小组调查(1992-2007)的16次浪潮，并应用了带有Heckman选择修正的OLS模型。研究结果表明，更高的绝对工资和女性在成为母亲之前更平等的态度，减少了夫妇生下第一个孩子后向更传统的劳动分工的转变。在英国，女性的相对工资比她们的伴侣高并不显著。
This study examines the importance of prenatal characteristics of men and women in couples for how they change their time spent on housework and paid work after the transition to parenthood. We focus on both partners' earnings and gender role attitudes as explanatory factors. Previous research explored the importance of women's relative income and both partners' gender role attitudes for the extent to which the division of labour becomes more traditional among new parents. We extend this literature by including women's absolute earnings, which may be crucial given the very high costs of formal childcare in Britain. The statistical analysis of 310 couples is based on 16 waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1992-2007) and applies OLS models with Heckman selection correction. The findings suggest that higher absolute wages and more egalitarian attitudes of women before motherhood reduce the shift towards a more traditional division of labour after couples have their first child. In the British context, higher relative wages of women compared to their partners are not significant.