Attitudes, women’s employment and the domestic division of labour

Rosemary Crompton, Michaela Brockmann and Clare Lyonette
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Rosemary Crompton: City University, UK, r.crompton@city.ac.uk
Michaela Brockmann: University of London, UK
Clare Lyonette: City University, UK

Work, Employment & Society, 2005, vol. 19, issue 2, 213-233

Abstract: This article draws on a repeat of a 1994 survey, carried out in 2002, in three contrasting countries: Britain, Norway and the Czech Republic.The 1994 survey demonstrated that there was a significant association between more ‘liberal’ gender role attitudes and a less traditional division of domestic labour in all three countries. In 2002, this association was no longer significant for Britain and Norway. Gender role attitudes had become less traditional in all three countries, although women’s attitudes had changed more than men’s.There had been little change in the gendered allocation of household tasks, suggesting a slowing down of the increase of men’s involvement in domestic work. It is suggested that work intensification may be making increased participation in domestic work by men more difficult. Although national governments are becoming more aware and supportive of the problems of work-life ‘balance’, an increase in competitiveness and intensification at workplaces may be working against more ‘positive’ policy supports.

Keywords: Britain; comparative; Czech Republic; domestic work; employment; gender; Norway (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017005053168

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