Does Parenthood Strengthen a Traditional Household Division of Labor? Evidence From Sweden

Summary, in English

Parenthood is often considered a major factor behind gender differences in time allocation, especially between paid work and housework. This article investigates the impact of parenthood on men's and women's daily time use in Sweden and how it changed over the 1990s. The analysis is made using time diary data from the Multinational Time Use Survey (MTUS; N = 13,729) and multivariate Tobit regressions. The results indicate that while parenthood in 1990 - 1991 clearly strengthened the traditional gender division of labor in the household, this was much less the case in 2000 - 2001, when parenthood affected men and women in a more similar way.

• Författare: Martin Dribe; Maria Stanfors
• Avdelning/ar: Centrum för ekonomisk demografi; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; Institutet för Ekonomisk forskning
• Publiceringsår: 2009
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 33-45
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Journal of Marriage and Family
• Volym: 71
• Issue: 1
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00578.x
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Ämne: Economic History
• Nyckelord: transition to parenthood; time use; fatherhood; time diary methods; work family balance
• Aktiv: Published
• Projekt: Kön, kunskap, kompetens och karriär. Familjebildningsmönster bland högutbildade män och kvinnor i Sverige; Male fertility and fatherhood
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1741-3737