Attitudes Toward Housework and Child Care and the Gendered Division of Labor

Poortman, Anne‐Rigt; Lippe, Tanja van der

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00617.x

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“…Hence being involved with domestic work is not considered to be a man's job but a woman's job, which men should not engage in (Poortman and Van der Lippe 2009;Bosson and Vandello 2013). The extent to which housework is equally divided between women and men depends on the level of gender equality in a given country.…”

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De-gender them! Gendered vs cooperative division of housework – cross-cultural comparison of Polish and Norwegian students

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Domestic work has gendered meaning and content of both masculinity and femininity is strongly embedded in the cultural context. In our article, across three studies we analyse the perception of household duties and their division between partners in two countries differing with regard to gender equality levels: Norway and Poland. In our Study 1, Polish (N = 64, 40 women, M age = 19.97) and Norwegian (N = 45, 27 women, M age = 24.46) students rated the typicality of domestic duties for women and men in Poland and in Norway. Our results show that feminine-typed or masculine-typed household duties are perceived as less gendered in Norway than in Poland. In the second Study, using a sample consisting of students and internet users from Poland (N = 207, 92 women, M age = 27.15) and Norway (N = 126, 85 women, M age = 26.84 (SD = 10.87), we investigated whether there are Polish-Norwegian differences with regard to willingness to be more involved in household obligations. Overall, Norwegian men and women were more willing to perform household tasks. This result also found confirmation in results obtained with larger representative samples in Study 3. Using European Social Survey records of 889 Poles (429 women, M age = 47.02) and 990 Norwegians (452 women, M age = 49.38) we compared data concerning men's and women's perception of their and their partners' contribution to housework. Our results show that cultural context can relate to the perception of household duties that are perceived more gender-neutral in Norway than in Poland.

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“…The value obtained was 0.82, which allowed to conduct factor analysis. According to the author's recommendations, first the value of items whose response were negative was inverted, i.e., items 4,6,7,8,9,10,12,16,17,18,19,21,22, 24 and 26.…”

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“…(2) The difference between family roles in terms of gender is perceived by women as unfair, although some women report more positive attitudes towards domestic activities and child care and feel more responsible for them than men do. (3,4) Family relationships are based on reciprocity and are multi-determined. The child's characteristics and a secure attachment with the parents are aspects that influence marital satisfaction, which is also influenced by the trust each partner feels in the other and time spent together as a couple.…”

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Identificação dos efeitos dos filhos nas relações familiares

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Objective: To identify the effects that children have on family relationships and identify the ranking of concerns of parents with and without twin children. Methods: A cross-sectional study was developed with 265 parents with small children, of which 143 had twin children. The instruments used for data collection were: the Family Impact Questionnaire and the Parent Concerns Questionnaire. Results: The most important parenting concerns in both groups were: "Lack of sleep and tiredness"; "Financially providing for the family"; "Increased chores and housework"; "Individual stress about roles and responsibilities." The greatest impact felt by the family was in respect to finances and this value was significantly higher in families with twin children. Conclusion: Nursing professionals must care for the main difficulties perceived by parents by promoting strategies and fostering resource mobilization. ResumoObjetivo: Identificar os efeitos que os filhos têm nas relações familiares e identificar a priorização de preocupações dos pais com e sem filhos gêmeos. Métodos: Estudo transversal com 265 pais com filhos menores, dos quais 143 com filhos gêmeos. Os instrumentos de coleta de dados: escala de impacto familiar de um filho; lista de preocupações parentais. Resultados: As preocupações parentais priorizadas por ambos os grupos de participantes foram: "Falta de horas de sono e cansaço"; "Necessidades econômicas da família"; "Aumento das tarefas domésticas"; "Stresse individual com os papéis e com as responsabilidades". O impacto familiar dos filhos é maior na dimensão financeira, sendo que esse valor é significativamente maior nas famílias com gêmeos. Conclusão: Os profissionais de enfermagem devem atender as principais dificuldades percebidas pelos pais promovendo estratégias e favorecendo a mobilização dos seus recursos.

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“…According to McKenna 'the family farm depends on the often invisible and underappreciated labour of women on a day to day basis ' (2012: 534). With women simultaneously performing the majority of domestic labour (Poortman and Van Der Lippe 2009) as well as supplementing or providing family income through off-farm labour (Allen and Sachs 2007;Naples 1994: 124), the agrarian imaginary has the potential to hide where the burdens of interdependent social organization lie.…”

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An Agrarian Imaginary in Urban Life: Cultivating Virtues and Vices Through a Conflicted History

Mayes

2013

J Agric Environ Ethics

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This paper explores the influence and use of agrarian thought on collective understandings of food practices as sources of ethical and communal value in urban contexts. A primary proponent of agrarian thought that this paper engages is Paul Thompson and his exceptional book, The Agrarian Vision. Thompson aims to use agrarian ideals of agriculture and communal life to rethink current issues of sustainability and environmental ethics. However, Thompson perceives the current cultural mood as hostile to agrarian virtue. There are two related claims of this paper. The first argues that contrary to Thompson's perception of hostility, agrarian thought is popularly and commercially mobilized among urban populations. To establish this claim I extend Charles Taylor's notion of a social imaginary and suggest that urban agriculture can be theorized as an agrarian imaginary. Entwined with the first claim is the second, that proponents selectively use agrarian history to overemphasis a narrative of virtue while ignoring or marginalizing historical practices of agrarian violence, exclusion and dispossession. I do not discount or deny the significance of agrarian virtue. By situating agrarian thought within a clearer virtue ethics framework and acknowledging potential manifestation of agrarian vice, I suggest that the idea of agrarian virtue is strengthened.

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Attitudes Toward Housework and Child Care and the Gendered Division of Labor

Cited by 148 publications

References 31 publications

De-gender them! Gendered vs cooperative division of housework – cross-cultural comparison of Polish and Norwegian students

De-gender them! Gendered vs cooperative division of housework – cross-cultural comparison of Polish and Norwegian students

Identificação dos efeitos dos filhos nas relações familiares

An Agrarian Imaginary in Urban Life: Cultivating Virtues and Vices Through a Conflicted History

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