Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
April 15, 2017
Summary:
This article investigates associations between couples’ divisions of time spent on employment and household chores and respondents’ satisfaction with their partner relationship. Theoretical notions of specialization and equity were used to derive hypotheses. Specialization relates to differentiation in the content of tasks, whereas equity in hours indicates similarity in time devoted to family needs. We study direct effects of hours-equity and specialization with relationship satisfaction, but more importantly we investigate to what extent associations differ for people with egalitarian gender role attitudes, and for people with young children. We analysed dyadic data from the British Household Panel Survey. Surprisingly, no main effects of hours-equity and specialization on relationship satisfaction were found. Our results did show that for men with egalitarian gender role attitudes, equity in hours positively affected relationship satisfaction. Moreover, specialization was related to lower relationship satisfaction for men with egalitarian gender role attitudes. Conditional effects were not found for women or for the presence of children.
Published in
European Sociological Review
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 33 , p.195 -208
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw057
ISSN
2667215
Subjects
Link
- https://lib.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1614272
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