Gendered Division of Housework in Slovak Couples: Life Course and Other Factors

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-023-09926-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-023-09926-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-023-09926-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10834-023-09926-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gendered Division of Housework in Slovak Couples: Life Course and Other Factors

Original language description

The paper examines factors that explain the allocation of time and the gendered division of routine, non-routine and care activities in Slovak households. It departs from the extant literature in three notable respects. First, the division of household labor between partners is studied for Slovakia, a former Socialist country with a specific family and societal context, where female labor force participation evolved differently from Western market economies. Second, in conjunction with the established theories of gendering housework (the time availability, relative resources and gender ideology hypotheses), the explanation takes a life course perspective that breaks households down into five life stages by the presence and age of children. Third, the methodology considers simultaneity in the time spent on different tasks and in its division between the genders by adopting a model of seemingly unrelated regression equations. Slovak males are found to spend on average more time in paid employment and devote far fewer hours to unpaid routine housework than females do. Life cycle stages are found to be a reliable predictor especially for hours spent and the gendered division of care work. Life stages are manifested mainly in time use of women, whereas men adjust their time use only when their assistance is needed with children. Time allocation and the gendered division of routine and non-routine chores are primarily explained by income-based and education-based relative resources, whilst patterns of care work are in line with the life course rather than explained by time availability.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10103 - Statistics and probability

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

ISSN

1058-0476

e-ISSN

1573-3475

Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

09

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

"nestrankovano"

UT code for WoS article

001059612500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85170043701