Gender and the Division of Household Labor in Older Couples: A European Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Hank, Karsten; Jurges, Hendrik
Titel	Gender and the Division of Household Labor in Older Couples: A European Perspective
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 28 (2007) 3, S.399-421 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X06296427
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Housework; Multivariate Analysis; Older Adults; Individual Characteristics; Sex Fairness; Family Relationship; Home Management; Cultural Differences; Family Attitudes; Sex Role; Family Environment; Cross Cultural Studies; Comparative Analysis; Social Influences; Family Income + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hausarbeit; Multivariate Analyse; Älterer Erwachsener; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sexualaufklärung; Haushaltswesen; Kultureller Unterschied; Geschlechterrolle; Familienmilieu; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Sozialer Einfluss; Familieneinkommen
Abstract	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. (Contains 2 tables, 1 figure, and 8 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10