Relatively Different? How Do Gender Differences in Well-Being Depend on Paid and Unpaid Work in Europe?

Autor/in	Boye, Katarina
Titel	Relatively Different? How Do Gender Differences in Well-Being Depend on Paid and Unpaid Work in Europe?
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 93 (2009) 3, S.509-525 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-008-9434-1
Schlagwörter	Employment Level; Foreign Countries; Housework; Social Environment; Gender Differences; Well Being; Working Hours; Females + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Beschäftigungsgrad; Ausland; Hausarbeit; Soziales Umfeld; Geschlechterkonflikt; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Hours of work; Arbeitszeit; Weibliches Geschlecht
Abstract	Absolute as well as relative hours of paid and unpaid work may influence well-being. This study investigates whether absolute hours spent on paid work and housework account for the lower well-being among women as compared to men in Europe, and whether the associations between well-being and hours of paid work and housework differ by gender attitudes and social context. Attitudes towards women's and men's paid work and housework obligations may influence how beneficial or detrimental it is to spend time on these activities, as may social comparison of one's own hours to the number of hours commonly spent among similar others. A group of 13,425 women and men from 25 European countries are analysed using country fixed-effects models. The results suggest that while men's well-being appears to be unaffected by hours of paid work and housework, women's well-being increases with increased paid working hours and decreases with increasing housework hours. Gender differences in time spent on paid work and housework account for a third of the European gender difference in well-being and are thus one reason that women have lower well-being than men have. Gender attitudes do not appear to modify the associations between hours and well-being, but there is a tendency for women's well-being to be higher the less housework they do compared to other women in the same family situation and country. However, absolute hours of paid work and housework appear to be more important to women's well-being than relative hours. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10