Fifty years of change updated: Cross-national gender convergence in housework
Fifty years of change updated: Cross-national gender convergence in housework
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DOI：
10.4054/demres.2016.35.16
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发表时间：
2016-08-24
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Sullivan, Oriel
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作者：
Altintas, Evrim;Sullivan, Oriel
家务劳动中的性别趋势为改变性别不平等提供了重要的见解。特别是，它们阐明了关于“性别革命”停滞不前的辩论。此外，家务劳动的性别分工与夫妻幸福感密切相关;对家务劳动的分歧是婚姻冲突的主要来源之一。目的的目的是把证据的性别趋势的时间花在核心家务最新的，并调查跨国变化，这些trends.METHODS使用66时间使用调查来自19个国家，我们采用随机截距，用随机斜率模型研究半个世纪来家务劳动中性别差异的变化总体趋势是朝着更大的性别平等方向发展，但各国在趋同的程度和速度方面存在显著差异。具体来说，有一个减缓的性别趋同从20世纪80年代后期在那些国家的男性和女性的时间在家务劳动已经是比较平等的，与陡峭的性别趋同继续在那些国家的性别分工不太equal.CONCLUSIONS我们的研究结果支持的观点，尽管短期失速，减速，甚至逆转，以及在国家政策背景下的重要差异，总体跨国情况显示，在家务劳动方面，两性更加平等的趋势持续存在。
BACKGROUND Gendered trends in housework provide an important insight into changing gender inequality. In particular, they shed light on the debate over the stalling of the ` gender revolution'. Additionally, the gender division of housework is significantly related to couple well-being; disagreements over housework are among the major sources of marital conflict. OBJECTIVE The objective is to bring the evidence on gendered trends in time spent on core housework up to date, and to investigate cross-national variation in those trends.METHODS Using 66 time use surveys from 19 countries, we apply a random-intercept, randomslope model to investigate half a century of change in gender differences in housework (1961-2011).RESULTS There is a general movement in the direction of greater gender equality, but with significant country differences in both the level and the pace of convergence. Specifically, there was a slowing of gender convergence from the late 1980s in those countries where men and women's time in housework was already more equal, with steeper gender convergence continuing in those countries where the gender division of housework was less equal.CONCLUSIONS Our findings support the view that despite short-term stalls, slow-downs, and even reverses, as well as important differences in national policy contexts, the overall crossnational picture shows a continuing trend towards greater gender equality in the performance of housework.