Formation and change of the gendered economic and power inequalities - the case of division of labour in Polish households

在我的研究中，我打算探索波兰双职工夫妇之间的劳动分工，他们有孩子。对该领域现有文献的广泛审查清楚地表明，两性不平等现象在劳动力市场(例如，性别工资差距)和家庭(例如，妇女做大部分家务和照看孩子)上都会产生和复制。这就是为什么我计划在这个项目中重新连接家庭和工作领域，这两个领域通常是分开调查的。我将主要关注双收入的异性伴侣，因为在他们中，传统的性别角色最具争议性，工作和家庭冲突也很严重。根据国际研究，主要基于美国、澳大利亚和西欧国家的数据，孩子的出生是改变生活的事件，它强烈地影响着家庭的劳动分工(朝着更传统的安排)。波兰作为一个后苏联国家，自1989年以来经历了重大的经济和社会变革，并于2004年加入欧盟。然而，波兰的妇女(如果有工作的话)仍然几乎完全从事全职工作，与此同时，由于福利国家紧缩开支，公共对儿童的支持(即提供托儿中心)减少了。这种情况是中东欧国家所特有的，因此，更深入地了解在波兰的波兰夫妇之间劳动分工的形成(和改革)可能会大大有助于现有的关于家庭和工作领域性别不平等的国际知识体系。

During my research I intend to explore the division of labour among Polish dual-earner couples, having children. The extensive review of existing literature of the field clearly shows that gender inequalities are produced and reproduced both on the labour market (e.g. gender pay gap) and in the households (e.g. women doing most housework and childcare). This is why in the project I plan to reconnect the spheres of family and work, which are often investigated separately. I will focus primarily on dual-earner heterosexual couples as among them the traditional gender roles are most contested and work-family conflict is significant. According to international research, based mostly on data from the USA, Australia and the Western European countries, the birth of the child is the life-changing event which strongly influences the division of labour in family (towards more traditional arrangement). Poland, as a post-soviet country, has undergone a significant economic and social change since 1989 and joined the European Union in 2004. However, women in Poland (if employed) still work almost exclusively fulltime and at the same time public support for children (i.e. availability of childcare centres) dropped when the welfare state retrenched. This situation is characteristic for the CEE cluster, therefore more in-depth comprehension of formation (and reformation)of the division of labour among Polish couples in Poland may contribute significantly to the existing international body of knowledge around gender inequalities in the spheres of the family and work.