Contextual Effects on the Gendered Division of Housework: a Cross-Country and Cross-Time Analysis

Abstract: Individuals who espouse an egalitarian gender ideology as well as economically independent women benefit from a more egalitarian division of housework. Although these two individual-level characteristics affect the gender division of housework, each suggests a different mechanism; the former is anchored within an economic logic and the latter within a cultural one. Using data of 25 countries from the 2002 and 2012 "Family and Changing Gender Roles" modules of the International Social Survey Program, we examine whether a country’s mean gender ideology and women’s labor force participation (WLFP) rate have a distinct contextual effect beyond these individual-level effects. We predict that the division of housework between married or cohabitating partners will be more egalitarian in countries with higher WLFP rates and in countries with more egalitarian attitudes, even after controlling for the two variables at the individual level. Given the cross-country convergence in WLFP, but not

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Sex Roles : a Journal of Research ; 85 (2021) 3-4 ; 205-220

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2021
• Creator: Mandel, Hadas ; Lazarus, Amit

Further information

• DOI: 10.1007/s11199-020-01215-0
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-83061-3
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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