Women as Main Earners in Europe

Mendola, Daria; Vitali, Agnese

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2555172

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“…The results lent partial support to our expectation of decreasing traditional GRA for moves that (in part) support the career of the female partner (Hypothesis 5: Female-led or co-led mover hypothesis). This tentatively suggests that the emerging trends in female-breadwinner households in Britain (Vitali and Mendola 2014) are permeating in couple relocation's behaviour and outcomes.…”

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Changes in gender role attitudes following couples' residential relocations

Vidal¹,

Lersch²

2019

DemRes

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BACKGROUND Residential relocations of couple households are associated with increases in objective gender inequality within families in paid and unpaid work. Little is known about how couples' relocations affect subjective outcomes such as attitudes. OBJECTIVE We examine whether gender role attitudes change when families move residentially in Britain, empirically addressing potential explanations. We also assess heterogeneity in outcomes by relocation distance and relocation motive. METHOD We use linear fixed-effects regression on a representative sample of 6,415 partnered women and 6,220 partnered men from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2007). RESULTS Our results show that, on average, an individual's gender role attitudes were not significantly altered following a couple's relocation. As an exception, we find that when couples exclusively relocated for the female partner's job, men's gender role attitudes became more egalitarian post-relocation. Preliminary evidence also suggests that women's gender role attitudes are potentially affected by their exposure to residential contexts. CONTRIBUTION Despite widespread evidence regarding increases in objective gender inequality following couple relocations in Britain, our findings suggest that this does not permeate into subjective outcomes such as attitudes. Beyond expanding the knowledge on subjective sources of gender inequality that follow couples' relocations, our results also

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Section: Discussion and Concluding Remarksmentioning

confidence: 92%

Changes in gender role attitudes following couples' residential relocations

Vidal¹,

Lersch²

2019

DemRes

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“…Among the many resources individuals have and may share within a couple, income has been argued to be a crucial marker of power relations between partners (1997, Pahl, 1989Pahl, , 1999, and is therefore of primary interest here. Analysing households in terms of partners' share of total labour income enables us to evaluate the different (even competing) expectations of different theoretical perspectives, further accounting for qualitative differences between households where a man (or a woman) is the main breadwinner, and households where both bring in similar amounts (see also Vitali & Arpino, 2016;Vitali & Mendola, 2014).…”

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“…We consider how different combinations of changes in working hours led to rearranging the time division of household chores. Moreover, since studies of inequalities have highlighted how the interplay of partners' resources within couples can vary (Dieckhoff, Gash, Mertens, & Romeu Gordo, 2020;Grotti & Scherer, 2016;Vitali & Arpino, 2016;Vitali & Mendola, 2014), we assess the extent to which the possible renegotiation differed depending on the partners' contributions to household labour income, distinguishing male breadwinner, female breadwinner and couples earning similar amounts.…”

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Work less, help out more? The persistence of gender inequality in housework and childcare during UK COVID-19

Zamberlan

Gioachin

Gritti

2021

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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“…Confronting the new household economics theory, for several decades, studies from Northern Europe have shown the compatibility between women's work and childbearing (Duvander and Andersson 2006). Educational expansion among women may result in their holding better labormarket positions and in the emergence of female-breadwinner couples (Drago et al 2005, Vitali andMendola 2014).…”

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Rethinking Couples’ Fertility in Spain: Do Partners’ Relative Education, Employment, and Job Stability Matter?

Bueno

Román

2021

European Sociological Review

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Fertility decisions among Spanish couples have been strongly driven by economic uncertainty in a context in which dual-earner couples have become the norm and in which the gender gap in education has reversed. However, the partners’ respective jobs do not carry the same weight in such decisions. We explore how homogamous or heterogamous education, employment, and job stability between partners can provide insights into couples’ fertility decisions using data from 2002 to 2018 Spanish Labor Force Survey. The results reveal that among heterogamic couples, the woman’s job stability more than the man’s is key for childbearing decisions, while no differences are found in fertility levels for educationally heterogamous partners. In homogamous couples, the results suggest a reversal of the negative education-fertility gradient and show that highly educated couples have a higher likelihood of having a child than less-educated couples. Dual-earner couples are more likely to be parents than couples affected by unemployment and as likely as those meeting the declining male breadwinner, female caregiver model. We conclude that the role played by female employment in fertility trumps the role played by gender essentialism, highlighting the nonexclusive importance of gender egalitarianism, female employment, and economic uncertainty to fertility.

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Women as Main Earners in Europe

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

Changes in gender role attitudes following couples' residential relocations

Changes in gender role attitudes following couples' residential relocations

Work less, help out more? The persistence of gender inequality in housework and childcare during UK COVID-19

Rethinking Couples’ Fertility in Spain: Do Partners’ Relative Education, Employment, and Job Stability Matter?

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