Revisiting the Gender Revolution: Time on Paid Work, Domestic Work, and Total Work in East Asian and Western Societies 1985–2016

Kan, Man-Yee; Zhou, Muzhi; Kolpashnikova, Kamila; Hertog, Ekaterina; Yoda, Shohei; Jun, Jiweon

doi:10.1177/08912432221079664

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“…But it remains to be seen whether gender-egalitarianism in unpaid work translates into men’s increasing involvement in housework or remains a superficial commitment. Though Chinese men spend more time on housework than men in other East Asian societies with similar patriarchal cultures, the gender gap in housework shows no sign of decline across cohorts within China (Kan et al, 2022; Luo and Chui, 2018).…”

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Mosaic of beliefs: Comparing gender ideology in China across generation, geography, and gender

Yang

2023

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Modernization accounts of cultural change hold that economic development drives liberalization of social values, including gender beliefs. Some comparative gender scholarship suggests that societal affluence is often accompanied by the growth of gender-essentialist beliefs, and that these beliefs coexist comfortably alongside gender-egalitarian values. The multidimensional conceptualization of gender ideology that is required to assess these competing claims has been applied so far mostly to Western societies. China is an obvious case for extending knowledge of these relationships, given its rapid economic growth and its recent history of state-imposed gender-egalitarian discourses. Applying latent class analysis to the Chinese General Social Survey (2010–2017), this study links different tenets of gender ideology in China to temporally and spatially specific histories and gendered interests. The results show that the relative importance of modernization and gender accounts depends on the generational, regional, and gendered identities being examined. Unlike in the West, moreover, egalitarian and essentialist beliefs do not always coincide in contemporary China. The friction between these beliefs reflects the resilience of male-primacy ideology.

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Mosaic of beliefs: Comparing gender ideology in China across generation, geography, and gender

Yang

2023

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…Why were male experts in Japan comparatively pessimistic about the prospects of domestic automation? Possible interpretations could be sought from Japan’s especially stark gender disparities and how that influences’ experts’ perceptions [ 54 ]. It would not be uncommon for Japanese men in expert positions to have almost no personal experience of major domestic work tasks, which they delegate instead to their wives.…”

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The future(s) of unpaid work: How susceptible do experts from different backgrounds think the domestic sphere is to automation?

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The future of work has become a prominent topic for research and policy debate. However, the debate has focused entirely on paid work, even though people in industrialized countries on average spend comparable amounts of time on unpaid work. The objectives of this study are therefore (1) to expand the future of work debate to unpaid domestic work and (2) to critique the main methodology used in previous studies. To these ends, we conducted a forecasting exercise in which 65 AI experts from the UK and Japan estimated how automatable are 17 housework and care work tasks. Unlike previous studies, we applied a sociological approach that considers how experts’ diverse backgrounds might shape their estimates. On average our experts predicted that 39 percent of the time spent on a domestic task will be automatable within ten years. Japanese male experts were notably pessimistic about the potentials of domestic automation, a result we interpret through gender disparities in the Japanese household. Our contributions are providing the first quantitative estimates concerning the future of unpaid work and demonstrating how such predictions are socially contingent, with implications to forecasting methodology.

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“…This assumption has generated tensions between women's responsibilities as workers and their roles as caregivers. It has increased women's exposure to the dual burden of domestic and paid labor (Cheung & Kim, 2018;Kan et al, 2022;Kim & Cheung, 2019). Women may wish to avoid marriage because it subjects them to gender inegalitarian conditions and forces them to assume the dual burden of paid and domestic work.…”

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The rise of the childless single in South Korea

Choi

Qian

2023

J of Family Theo & Revie

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We review the literature to show why South Korea is witnessing a dramatic rise in young adults who opt into childless singlehood. We argue that social change occurred over a compressed amount of time in South Korea. Confucian familism and ideational factors specific to the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) coexist and collide. The demands of Confucian familism also tend to be incompatible with the socioeconomic realities facing young adults. Influenced by the ideational factors characterizing the SDT, young adults may feel that it is acceptable to forego marriage. However, due to the strong influence of Confucianism on the institution of marriage, they may perceive married life to be largely inflexible. Thus, when confronted with incompatibilities between married life and other life domains, growing shares of Korean young adults may avoid married life and opt for childless singlehood.

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Revisiting the Gender Revolution: Time on Paid Work, Domestic Work, and Total Work in East Asian and Western Societies 1985–2016

Cited by 31 publications

References 55 publications

Mosaic of beliefs: Comparing gender ideology in China across generation, geography, and gender

Mosaic of beliefs: Comparing gender ideology in China across generation, geography, and gender

The future(s) of unpaid work: How susceptible do experts from different backgrounds think the domestic sphere is to automation?

The rise of the childless single in South Korea

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