Getting Outside Help: How Trust Problems Explain Household Differences in Domestic Outsourcing in the Netherlands

Autor/inn/en	de Ruijter, Esther; van der Lippe, Tanja
Titel	Getting Outside Help: How Trust Problems Explain Household Differences in Domestic Outsourcing in the Netherlands
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 30 (2009) 1, S.3-27 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X08324579
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Service Occupations; Family (Sociological Unit); Family Role; Employment Practices; Privatization; Trust (Psychology); Gender Issues; Sex Role; Economic Factors; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Dienstleistungsberuf; Familie; Berufspraxis; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Geschlechterfrage; Geschlechterrolle; Ökonomischer Faktor; Niederlande
Abstract	This article examines the influence of trust problems on the use of domestic outsourcing by couples from a gender perspective. The authors argue that trust problems matter in outsourcing decisions, because an outsider enters the privacy of the household and takes over tasks of special value. Analyses of data from a survey among 740 Dutch couples show that trust problems faced by female partners influence the outsourcing of female tasks, and the same reasoning applies to male partners. Partners who are more trusting toward others are more likely to outsource own-gender tasks. Conversely, greater skills reduce the trust problem for opposite-gender tasks, that is, men's skills increase the likelihood of outsourcing child care, whereas women's skills increase the outsourcing of home maintenance. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10