Gender and the Division of Household Labor in Older Couples
Gender and the Division of Household Labor in Older Couples
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老年夫妇的性别和家务分工
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2007
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通讯作者：
Hendrik Jürges
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K. Hank;Hendrik Jürges
本研究利用2004年欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查（SHARE）的微观数据，采用跨国视角调查老年夫妇（50岁或以上）的家庭劳动分工。在9个欧洲大陆国家中，作者发现伴侣之间家务劳动的总体分配存在很大差异，北欧国家更平等，南欧国家更传统。一项多层次分析表明，家务分工的国家间差异约有一半是由于老年夫妇特征的差异，但主要的微观解释变量并没有对国家产生具体影响。最后，作者发现宏观层面的性别不平等对夫妻家务分工有显著影响，这表明生活在性别更平等的国家的老年夫妇更有可能平等地分担家务劳动。
Using microdata from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this study takes a cross-national perspective to investigate the division of household labor among older couples (aged 50 years or more). Across nine continental European countries, the authors find considerable variation in the overall distribution of housework between partners, with more egalitarian countries in northern Europe and more traditional countries in southern Europe. A multilevel analysis shows that about half of the between-country variance in the division of housework is due to differences in older couples’ characteristics, but that there are no country-specific effects of the main microlevel explanatory variables. Finally, the authors find a significant effect of macrolevel gender inequalities on couples’ division of housework, suggesting that older couples living in more gender-egalitarian countries are more likely to exhibit an equal sharing of household labor.