Explaining Gender Differences in Housework Time in Germany |
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Authors: | Wencke Gwozdz Alfonso Sousa-Poza |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Intercultural Communication and Management,Copenhagen Business School,Frederiksberg,Denmark;2.Institute of Household and Consumer Economics,University of Hohenheim,Stuttgart,Germany |
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Abstract: | This study evaluates couples’ time use behaviour with regard to housework in Germany with data from the 2001/2002 and 1991/1992
German Time Use Survey. Despite the fact that women reduced their hours worked within the household context over the past
decades, the unequal division of housework between men and women still persists. This study aims both at analysing the determinants
of the allocation of time spent on housework, as well as why gender differences in household time use behaviour still exist.
With the aid of structural equation modelling, it is shown that the decrease in time spent on housework by women can largely
be explained by changes in the effects that wages, household goods consumption and the aspiration for market goods consumption
have on time spent on housework. Men’s time allocation behaviour has remained remarkably constant. It is also observed that
women’s time allocation behaviour with regard to household work is becoming more similar to that of men. |
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