The Happy Homemaker? Married Women's Well-Being in Cross-National Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Treas, Judith; van der Lippe, Tanja; Tai, Tsui-o Chloe
Titel	The Happy Homemaker? Married Women's Well-Being in Cross-National Perspective
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 90 (2011) 1, S.111-132 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
DOI	10.1093/sf/90.1.111
Schlagwörter	Labor Force Nonparticipants; Spouses; Marital Status; Homemakers; Employed Women; Psychological Patterns; Marriage; Females; Foreign Countries; Cross Cultural Studies; Employment Level; Family Environment; Cultural Differences; Social Influences; Gender Issues; Sex Role; Child Care + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehepartner; Familienstand; Hausfrau; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Ehe; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Beschäftigungsgrad; Familienmilieu; Kultureller Unterschied; Sozialer Einfluss; Geschlechterfrage; Geschlechterrolle; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung
Abstract	A long-standing debate questions whether homemakers or working wives are happier. Drawing on cross-national data for 28 countries, this research uses multi-level models to provide fresh evidence on this controversy. All things considered, homemakers are slightly happier than wives who work fulltime, but they have no advantage over part-time workers. The work status gap in happiness persists even controlling for family life mediators. Cross-level interactions between work status and macro-level variables suggest that country characteristics--GDP, social spending, women's labor force participation, liberal gender ideology and public child care--ameliorate the disadvantage in happiness for full-time working wives compared to homemakers and part-time workers. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10