Household Division of Labour: Generation, Gender, Age, Birth Order and Sibling Composition

Household Division of Labour: Generation, gender, age, birth order and sibling composition

Maternal age at child birth, birth order, and suicide at a young age: a sibling comparison.

Previous studies have reported strong associations between birth order, maternal age, and suicide, but these results might have been confounded by socioeconomic and other factors. To control for such factors, we compared suicide risk between siblings and studied how maternal age at child birth and birth order influenced risk in a cohort study of 1,690,306 Norwegians born in 1967-1996 who were f...

The Relationship of Gender Role Attitude and Division of Household labor with Couples' Perceived justice

Background & aim: Given the advancements in science, technology, and cultural globalization, Iranian families has changed in several aspects affecting individual’s perception of justice in division of household labor. Therefore, we sought to evaluate the correlation of gender role attitude and household labor division with perceived justice in couples. Methods: The present correlational study w...

Sibling Gender Composition and Women’s Wages∗

We examine the impact of sibling gender composition on women’s adult earnings. Using data from Add Health, we find that women with any brothers earn roughly 10 percent less than women with no brothers in their late 20s and early 30s. This effect is primarily due to lower earnings within broadly defined education and occupation groups. We then explore mechanisms that may explain this result. We ...

Employment, age and children: How do they affect the division of household labour?

As women’s involvement in the paid labour force increased, social researchers believed that this would transfer to an increase in men’s involvement in domestic labour. However, this has not been realised to any great extent (see Hochschild, 1989). Through the examination of different life course groups, this paper outlines responsibility for housework and childrearing tasks. This analysis finds...