Gender Segregation and Bargaining in Domestic Labour: Evidence from Longitudinal Time-use Data

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Yee Kan ◽  
Jonathan Gershuny
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Domestic Labour

Between Work and Play: The Gendering of Formal Volunteering Practices in France

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Jan Windebank
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Formal Volunteering ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
French Gender

Research on women's time-use in France has hitherto focused principally on employment and domestic labour. If leisure time is discussed, it is as a residual element of the analysis and an indicator of how ‘overworked’ particular groups of women are. Moreover, little attention has been paid to how this leftover time is used by women and few studies have discussed how the French gender regime influences men's and women's participation in various possible free-time activities. The present article addresses this gap in current research by discussing one possible use of women's free time, namely formal volunteering. The ways in which the gender regime in France influences the differences in women's and men's formal volunteering practices will be analysed within the constraints of existing secondary data.

scholarly journals Social Times, Reproduction and Social Inequality at Work: Contrasts and Comparative Perspectives Between Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 331-359
Author(s):  
Màrius Domínguez-Amorós ◽  
Leticia Muñiz ◽  
Gabriela Rubilar
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
The Family

AbstractIf the focus is placed specifically on the problem of work and family, the daily life of people and their use of time are a main problem. This time is expressed in both freely available time, which is related to activities, and time of the productive and reproductive sphere. This chapter considers work in a broad sense and takes into account the sexual division of labour.Specifically, this chapter will explore transformations in time use and social inequality in unpaid work. For this purpose, a comparative analysis of time-use surveys will be used, analysing the time spent, and the time dedicated to household chores in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Spain. From an analytical viewpoint, the analysis will place social reproduction at the centre of the socio-economic system, showing that the economic crisis has affected women and men differently, and that in both Europe and Latin America the family pattern is being replaced by a dominant family model of a male provider and a double presence of women. The large-scale incorporation of women into the labour market has emphasised the role that women assume in the domestic sphere perpetuating gender segregation in employment and in domestic and care work.

Making up for mothers’ employed working hours?

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragni Hege Kitterød ◽  
Silje Vatne Pettersen
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Full Time Employment

It is an important aim in Norwegian work-family policy to enhance fathers’ family role, and some argue that we now have a father-friendly welfare state. Norwegian time-use surveys show an increase in fathers’ family-work, but we know little about the factors influencing fathers’ domestic labour. In this article we ask whether fathers increase their housework and childcare in response to mothers’ employment. Using the latest Norwegian time-use survey, we find a non-linear relationship between the mother’s working hours and the couple’s non-overlapping working hours on the one hand, and the mother’s working hours and the father’s family-work on the other.The father makes up for the mother’s absence only when she works short hours and only for certain chores. Full-time employment for the mother does not increase the father’s contribution in any types of family-work. This suggests that dual-earner parents rely mostly on external childcare to substitute for the mother’s absence.

The Importance of Difference: Conceptualising Increased Flexibility in Gender Relations at Home

1996 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orly Benjamin ◽  
Oriel Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Normative Structure ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Historical Series ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Opening Up

In this paper we have three goals. First, to provide a critique of attempts to theorise in the area of intimate care and domestic division of labour which do not pay adequate attention to issues of plurality/difference. We argue that the ideological environment within which contemporary couples operate consists of more than one existing normative structure, and that therefore an approach which can incorporate the idea of change can only really arise in the context of a focus on plurality and difference among households. Secondly, to discuss large-scale empirical evidence relating to the domestic division of labour which seem to indicate an increasingly narrow basis for blanket ‘no change’ arguments. Historical series of time-use diaries suggest that over a long period consistent changes have occurred in the amount of time that both women and men devote to domestic labour, such that (some) women are doing on average proportionately less, and (some) men proportionately more. Finally, to offer a framework for the discussion of difference and change in gender relations in the home. This focuses on the analysis of the continuing marital conversation as the key arena where the institutional and interactional dimensions of gender relations are played out. Our evidence suggests that the ‘opening up’ of the marital conversation is an important indicator and facilitator of change, and that mechanisms underlying this ‘opening’ can be shown to facilitate higher levels of men's participation in family work.

Age at Full-Time Use Predicts Language Outcomes Better Than Age of Surgery in Children Who Use Cochlear Implants

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 986-992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa R. Park ◽  
Erika B. Gagnon ◽  
Erin Thompson ◽  
Kevin D. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Language Outcomes ◽  
Age At Surgery ◽  
Device Placement ◽  
Device Use ◽  
Better Than

Purpose The aims of this study were to (a) determine a metric for describing full-time use (FTU), (b) establish whether age at FTU in children with cochlear implants (CIs) predicts language at 3 years of age better than age at surgery, and (c) describe the extent of FTU and length of time it took to establish FTU in this population. Method This retrospective analysis examined receptive and expressive language outcomes at 3 years of age for 40 children with CIs. Multiple linear regression analyses were run with age at surgery and age at FTU as predictor variables. FTU definitions included 8 hr of device use and 80% of average waking hours for a typically developing child. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the establishment and degree of FTU. Results Although 8 hr of daily wear is typically considered FTU in the literature, the 80% hearing hours percentage metric accounts for more variability in outcomes. For both receptive and expressive language, age at FTU was found to be a better predictor of outcomes than age at surgery. It took an average of 17 months for children in this cohort to establish FTU, and only 52.5% reached this milestone by the time they were 3 years old. Conclusions Children with normal hearing can access spoken language whenever they are awake, and the amount of time young children are awake increases with age. A metric that incorporates the percentage of time that children with CIs have access to sound as compared to their same-aged peers with normal hearing accounts for more variability in outcomes than using an arbitrary number of hours. Although early FTU is not possible without surgery occurring at a young age, device placement does not guarantee use and does not predict language outcomes as well as age at FTU.

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