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Everyone’s a housewife: labour division in same-sex households

Mazur, Karolina LU (2018) EKHS02 20181
Department of Economic History
Abstract
Previous research shows that gender is a strong predictor of household labour division in heterosexual households. Same-sex couples cannot use gender and social norms associated with them as a starting point for initial household labour allocation. Although literature on household labour division is extensive, it does not elaborate enough on same-sex households. The aim of this study is to fill the gap in existing literature and investigate what factors affect household labour allocation in same-sex households. The paper estimates the size of the housework gap in heterosexual and same-sex couples and estimates the effects of the household type on the housework gap. In addition, it estimates the effect of individual characteristics of... (More)
Previous research shows that gender is a strong predictor of household labour division in heterosexual households. Same-sex couples cannot use gender and social norms associated with them as a starting point for initial household labour allocation. Although literature on household labour division is extensive, it does not elaborate enough on same-sex households. The aim of this study is to fill the gap in existing literature and investigate what factors affect household labour allocation in same-sex households. The paper estimates the size of the housework gap in heterosexual and same-sex couples and estimates the effects of the household type on the housework gap. In addition, it estimates the effect of individual characteristics of partners, household characteristics and attitude towards traditional household labour division on the housework gap. This study shows that same-sex couples are characterized by more equal division of housework than heterosexual couples. In addition, same-sex couples do not support traditional division of household labour as much as heterosexual couples do. However, same-sex female and male couples do not always show similarities in terms of factors affecting the housework gap. In order to achieve the aim of the study, models explaining the housework gap were built separately for different- and same-sex partners in order to estimate the effect of individual factors on the housework gap. (Less)
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author
Mazur, Karolina LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHS02 20181
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
household labour division, same-sex couples, housework gap
language
English
id
8951458
date added to LUP
2018-06-21 13:31:34
date last changed
2018-06-21 13:31:34
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  abstract     = {{Previous research shows that gender is a strong predictor of household labour division in heterosexual households. Same-sex couples cannot use gender and social norms associated with them as a starting point for initial household labour allocation. Although literature on household labour division is extensive, it does not elaborate enough on same-sex households. The aim of this study is to fill the gap in existing literature and investigate what factors affect household labour allocation in same-sex households. The paper estimates the size of the housework gap in heterosexual and same-sex couples and estimates the effects of the household type on the housework gap. In addition, it estimates the effect of individual characteristics of partners, household characteristics and attitude towards traditional household labour division on the housework gap. This study shows that same-sex couples are characterized by more equal division of housework than heterosexual couples. In addition, same-sex couples do not support traditional division of household labour as much as heterosexual couples do. However, same-sex female and male couples do not always show similarities in terms of factors affecting the housework gap. In order to achieve the aim of the study, models explaining the housework gap were built separately for different- and same-sex partners in order to estimate the effect of individual factors on the housework gap.}},
  author       = {{Mazur, Karolina}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Everyone’s a housewife: labour division in same-sex households}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}