Household Division of Labor: Is There Any Escape From Traditional Gender Roles ?

Sayyid Salman Rizavi () and Catherine Sofer ()
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Sayyid Salman Rizavi: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The effects of women's strong investments in career and their relative positions on the household division of labor, particularly the share of male partners in household work, constitute important but somehow unaddressed issues. We use the French Time Use Survey, focusing on couples where both partners participate in the labor market, to build indicators of strong female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share of household work. We show that though a better relative position of the woman in the labor market increases her husband's share of household work, there is no role reversal in the division of labor.

Keywords: Travail domestique; marché du travail; genre.; Household work; labor market; gender. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02
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Published in 2010

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Working Paper: Household Division of Labor: Is There Any Escape From Traditional Gender Roles ? (2010)
Working Paper: Household division of labor: Is there any escape from traditional gender roles? (2010)
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