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Gender Norms and the Gendered Distribution of Total Work in Latin American Households

Juan Campaña, Jose Ignacio Giménez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal (ngimenez@unizar.es)

Feminist Economics, 2018, vol. 24, issue 1, 35-62

Abstract: This study uses time-use survey data for Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador (from 2009, 2010, and 2012, respectively) to analyze differences between countries in terms of the gendered distribution of total work, which includes both paid and unpaid work. It explores whether the variations in the total time worked by women and men, and, particularly, the gender gap unfavorable to women, can be explained by substantive national differences in gendered social norms. Using data from the World Values Survey (WVS; 2010–14), this study computes a gender norms index to measure cross-country differences in gender norms. It finds that more egalitarian countries exhibit higher levels of equality in the gendered distribution of total work.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1390320

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