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Abstract
Family and changing gender roles.
Topics:
attitude towards employment of mothers;
role distribution of man and woman in occupation and household;
preferred extent of employment for women during different stages of child raising;
attitudes towards marriage, cohabitation without marriage, and divorce;
attitudes towards single-parenting and childcare by same sex female and male couples (alternative family forms);
ideal number of children for a family;
attitudes towards children: views on the significance of children in life;
gender, care and social policy: attitude towards paid leave for full-time working parents and preferred duration of paid leave;
source of finance for paid leave;
preferred division of this paid leave period between mother and father;
best way of organisation of family and work life for a family with a child under school age and the least desirable option;
principal payers for childcare for children under school age (family itself, government or public funds or employers);
family or institutions that should primarily provide support for the elderly;
principal payer for this help to elderly people;
time budget for housekeeping and looking after family members for both partners;
management of income in marriage or partnership;
allocation of duties in the household and in family matters;
estimation of fair share of the household work;
decision making within partnership in weekend activities and in matters of child raising;
principal earner (partner with higher income);
frequency of stress caused by family, work and household duties;
estimation of general personal happiness;
satisfaction with employment situation and family life;
assessment of personal health;
employment of mother during childhood of respondent;
employment of respondent and spouse/partner in various phases of child raising.
Demography:
sex;
age;
year of birth;
years in school;
education (country specific);
highest completed degree;
work status;
hours worked weekly;
employment relationship;
number of employees;
supervision of employees;
number of supervised employees;
type of organization:
for-profit vs. non profit and public vs. private;
occupation (ISCO-88);
main employment status;
living in steady partnership;
union membership;
religious affiliation or denomination (country specific);
groups of religious denominations;
attendance of religious services;
top-bottom self-placement;
vote in last general election;
country specific party voted in last general election;
party voted (left-right);
ethnicity (country specific);
number of children;
number of toddlers;
size of household;
earnings of respondent (country specific);
family income (country specific);
marital status;
place of living: urban - rural;
region (country specific).
Information about spouse and about partner on:
work status;
hours worked weekly;
employment relationship: supervises other employees, occupation (ISCO-88);
main employment status;
education and age of current spouse/partner;
duration of current relationship.
Additionally encoded:
date of interview;
case substitution flag;
mode of data collection;
weight.
Topics:
attitude towards employment of mothers;
role distribution of man and woman in occupation and household;
preferred extent of employment for women during different stages of child raising;
attitudes towards marriage, cohabitation without marriage, and divorce;
attitudes towards single-parenting and childcare by same sex female and male couples (alternative family forms);
ideal number of children for a family;
attitudes towards children: views on the significance of children in life;
gender, care and social policy: attitude towards paid leave for full-time working parents and preferred duration of paid leave;
source of finance for paid leave;
preferred division of this paid leave period between mother and father;
best way of organisation of family and work life for a family with a child under school age and the least desirable option;
principal payers for childcare for children under school age (family itself, government or public funds or employers);
family or institutions that should primarily provide support for the elderly;
principal payer for this help to elderly people;
time budget for housekeeping and looking after family members for both partners;
management of income in marriage or partnership;
allocation of duties in the household and in family matters;
estimation of fair share of the household work;
decision making within partnership in weekend activities and in matters of child raising;
principal earner (partner with higher income);
frequency of stress caused by family, work and household duties;
estimation of general personal happiness;
satisfaction with employment situation and family life;
assessment of personal health;
employment of mother during childhood of respondent;
employment of respondent and spouse/partner in various phases of child raising.
Demography:
sex;
age;
year of birth;
years in school;
education (country specific);
highest completed degree;
work status;
hours worked weekly;
employment relationship;
number of employees;
supervision of employees;
number of supervised employees;
type of organization:
for-profit vs. non profit and public vs. private;
occupation (ISCO-88);
main employment status;
living in steady partnership;
union membership;
religious affiliation or denomination (country specific);
groups of religious denominations;
attendance of religious services;
top-bottom self-placement;
vote in last general election;
country specific party voted in last general election;
party voted (left-right);
ethnicity (country specific);
number of children;
number of toddlers;
size of household;
earnings of respondent (country specific);
family income (country specific);
marital status;
place of living: urban - rural;
region (country specific).
Information about spouse and about partner on:
work status;
hours worked weekly;
employment relationship: supervises other employees, occupation (ISCO-88);
main employment status;
education and age of current spouse/partner;
duration of current relationship.
Additionally encoded:
date of interview;
case substitution flag;
mode of data collection;
weight.
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2016/02/08/housework
Who does the housework in multicultural Britain?
The first ever nationally representative study of how housework is organised by couples across different ethnic groups in Britain finds that, contrary perhaps to expectation, white British couples are not necessarily the most equal in how they divide up the daily chores or in their attitudes to men’s and women’s roles.
The study, by Professor Heather Laurie from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex and Dr Man-Yee Kan from the University of Oxford, examined the attitudes and behaviours of almost 30,000 co-habiting or married men and women taking part in the UK’s huge household panel study, Understanding Society.
Read the full paper Gender, ethnicity and household labour in married and cohabiting couples in the UK’ hereand read coverage of the research and an interview with Professor Laurie in The Observer
The data provided a detailed picture of how much time couples spend on routine housework and their attitudes to men’s and women’s roles within the household and in employment .The researchers were able to see how education levels, employment status, socio-economic background and ethnicity played a part in determining how British couples divide up chores.
In all groups women spend significantly more hours on housework than men – taking on an average share of 70% of the chores in the home such as cooking and cleaning. Women who have a degree and those in paid employment do a significantly lower share than those without jobs or without higher level qualifications. But there was considerable variation by ethnic background.
Professor Heather Laurie said: “We found both differences and similarities among ethnic groups, but were surprised to see that in multi-cultural Britain today white British couples are not necessarily the most modern and egalitarian in their outlook on housework. Black Caribbean men have the least traditional attitudes to gender roles while Indian men report taking on a fairer share of routine housework than white British men even though Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi women spend significantly more time on housework than white British women.
Education was important for both men and women. Indian men with a degree do more housework than those without, as do Bangladeshi men with a degree, Chinese men with a spouse who has a degree, Indian women with a degree and mixed background women whose spouse has a degree. Men spend – on average – fewer than half the hours that women spend on housework each week, with men spending a mean of 6 hours a week compared to a mean of 14 hours a week for women. Pakistani men however, report spending the fewest housework hours and the lowest share of housework of all groups. Pakistani and Bangladeshi women report spending a high of almost 24 hours a week on housework on average. Once other factors such as education, whether in paid employment, and whether a first or second generation immigrant are taken into account, the difference compared to white British women falls to between 3 and 5 hours a week.
Our research is the first study of its kind to use the rich data available from the panel survey Understanding Society to look at a large scale nationally representative sample of Britain and examine close up how couples divide housework chores across different ethnic groups. The results should be interesting to policy makers, educationalists and sociologists looking to understanding how couples are living in Britain today.”
