Gender patterns in domestic labour among young adults in different living arrangements in Australia

Craig, Lyn; Powell, Abigail; Brown, Judith E.

doi:10.1177/1440783315593181

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“…If women are more likely than men to take responsibility for household-related tasks, for example, they may then potentially spend more time in their neighbourhood as a result. 20 21 If more affluent neighbourhoods tend to promote lower BMI, as many, though not all, commentators suggest, 12 then the duration of exposure could play a role in explaining gender differences in the socioeconomic patterning of overweight and obesity. Furthermore, women in some contexts may also tend to be involved more often in activities that take place in the local area, such as schools and community groups.…”

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Do neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances not matter for weight status among Australian men? Multilevel evidence from a household survey of 14 691 adults

Feng

Wilson

2015

BMJ Open

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ObjectiveA recent analysis of the Australian National Health Survey (2011–2012) reported that the patterning of overweight and obesity among men, unlike for women, was not associated with neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage. The purpose of this study was to examine whether this gender difference in potential neighbourhood ‘effects’ on adult weight status can be observed in analyses of a different source of data.Design, setting and participantsA cross-sectional sample of 14 693 people aged 18 years or older was selected from the 2012 wave of the ‘Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia’ (HILDA). Three person-level outcomes were considered: (1) body mass index (BMI); (2) a binary indicator of ‘normal weight’ versus ‘overweight or obese’; and (3) ‘normal weight or overweight’ versus ‘obese’. Area-level socioeconomic circumstances were measured using quintiles of the Socio Economic Index For Areas (SEIFA). Multilevel linear and logistic regression models were used to examine associations while accounting for clustering within households and neighbourhoods, adjusting for person-level socioeconomic confounders.ResultsNeighbourhood-level factors accounted for 4.9% of the overall variation in BMI, whereas 20.1% was attributable to household-level factors. Compared with their peers living in deprived neighbourhoods, mean BMI was 0.7 kg/m2 lower among men and 2.2 kg/m2 lower among women living in affluent areas, with a clear trend across categories. Similarly, the percentage of overweight and obese, and obesity specifically, was lower in affluent areas for both men and women. These results were robust to adjustment for confounders.ConclusionsUnlike findings from the national health survey, but in line with evidence from other high-income countries, this study finds an inverse patterning of BMI by neighbourhood disadvantage for men, and especially among women. The potential mediators which underpin this gender difference in BMI within disadvantaged neighbourhoods warrant further investigation.

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Do neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances not matter for weight status among Australian men? Multilevel evidence from a household survey of 14 691 adults

Feng

Wilson

2015

BMJ Open

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“…Gardening and home maintenance are considered to be non-routine housework as they need not be performed as often and can be flexibly arranged over the week. Grocery shopping is considered to be routine as well as "gender-neutral" (Baxter, 2002;Craig, Powell, and Brown, 2015;Kan and He, 2018).…”

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Do Better-Educated Couples Share Domestic Work More Equitably in Japan? It Depends on the Day of the Week

Hertog

Kan

Shirakawa

et al. 2021

Journal of Comparative Family Studies

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This paper investigates the gendered division of labor in different types of domestic work within married couples in contemporary Japan. We analyze routine housework such as cleaning and cooking, non-routine housework such as home repairs, and care work by using the 2016 Survey of Time Use and Leisure Activities (Japan’s national time diary survey). Our core analysis is done using ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions on total domestic work time, routine housework time, non-routine housework time, and care time. We find that women’s domestic work time dwarfs men’s, and there is some variation by day of the week and education. On weekdays domestic work is almost exclusively the domain of women. On weekends we find evidence of compensatory behaviors for both men and women. Men, especially those with university education, catch up on all types of unpaid work while women, especially those with tertiary education, catch up on unpaid work mostly by spending more time caring for children. Looking at the family balance in sharing domestic labor we find that men increase their time on unpaid work on weekends proportionately more than women do. Consequently, within couples, wives’ share of all types of unpaid work is around 10% smaller on weekends compared to weekdays. In couples where wives have tertiary education, there is an additional reduction by several percentage points in their weekend share of domestic work time compared to weekdays. Our findings suggest that Japanese men’s long work hours contribute to gender inequality in domestic work participation. We also find that university education is associated with more equal sharing of domestic workload, indicating that socialization may play a role in bringing about greater egalitarianism in the domestic sphere in the future.

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“…Whereas Etheridge and Spantig ( 2020 ) found that controlling for time spent on housework and childcare reduced the gender gap in well‐being, Adams‐Prassl et al ( 2020 ) found it did not. Although gender disparities in domestic responsibilities typically increase upon the birth of the first child (Baxter et al, 2008 ), childcare is not solely responsible for gender differences in family responsibilities—large and significant gender differences in household labor exist among couples without children as well (e.g., Craig et al, 2016 ). The present research explores this question among financial advisors by asking male and female financial advisors the extent to which family or other responsibilities outside the workplace has been a stressor for them since the onset of COVID‐19.…”

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Gender differences in COVID‐19‐related stress and relationships with life satisfaction among financial advisors

Tharp

Parks‐Stamm

Kitces³

et al. 2021

Fin Plan Rev

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This study examines gender differences in COVID-19-related stress and the relationship between COVID-19-related stress and life satisfaction in a large sample of financial advisors in the United States (n = 499). Compared to men, women reported greater increases in work-related stress since the onset of COVID-19, higher levels of stress from managing family responsibilities, and more stress from witnessing the impact of COVID-19 on their clients (i.e., empathetic stress). Using an integrative model of top-down and bottomup influences on life satisfaction, COVID-19-related stress predicted life satisfaction among women but not men. Consistent with integrative models of both bottom-up and top-down influences on satisfaction assessment, trait affect was found to predict life satisfaction. Implications of the unequal stress of COVID-19 on men and women within the financial planning profession are discussed.

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Gender patterns in domestic labour among young adults in different living arrangements in Australia

Cited by 16 publications

References 58 publications

Do neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances not matter for weight status among Australian men? Multilevel evidence from a household survey of 14 691 adults

Do neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances not matter for weight status among Australian men? Multilevel evidence from a household survey of 14 691 adults

Do Better-Educated Couples Share Domestic Work More Equitably in Japan? It Depends on the Day of the Week

Gender differences in COVID‐19‐related stress and relationships with life satisfaction among financial advisors

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