Macro-level Gender Inequality and the Division of Household Labor in 22 Countries

By M. Fuwa. 2004

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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A World of Difference: International Trends in Women's Economic Status (2011, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. countries where men’s work hours are shorter (Fuwa 2004; Hook 2006, 2010; UNDP 2007, table 32).”
Advances in explaining women's employment patterns (2012, background): “Finally, there is also evidence suggesting that women’s attitudes have a stronger impact on their employment and the gender division of domestic labour in some than in other countries (Fuwa 2004; Geist 2005; Steiber & Haas 2009).”
Housework and social policy (2007, methodology): “We control for age of respondents in years and age squared because a non-linear relationship between age and the division of household labor is found in previous research (Batalova and Cohen, 2002; Fuwa, 2004; South and Spitze, 1994).”
Preferences or institutions? Work—family life opportunities in seven European countries (2007, background): “In other words, one can expect that wives with husbands who express work orientation in terms of their wife’s behaviour tend to work more outside home than spouses of men who prefer their wives to stay at home; in other words, there should be attitudinal consistency between spouses (Fuwa, 2004).”
Blurred Boundaries: Gender and Work–Family Interference in Cross-National Context (2014, methodology): “For example, gender empowerment is tied to gender equality in housework (Batalova & Cohen, 2002; Fuwa, 2004; Hook, 2006; Ruppanner, 2009; Stier & Mandel, 2009).”
The state intervenes in the battle of the sexes: Causal effects of paternity leave (2011, positive): “, Fuwa 2004; Geist 2005), and Hook (2006; 2010) finds that men with children who have access to paternity leave report spending more time on unpaid work. Ekberg, Eriksson, and Friebel (2005) is the only previous study on the effects of parental leave on household division of labor that use a design ”
Connecting Work—Family Policies to Supportive Work Environments (2009, background): “Given a supportive work environment and supervisory support have been found to yield positive organizational outcomes (Frye & Breaugh, 2004; Ng & Sorensen, 2008; Paré & Tremblay, 2007; Roehling 216 Group & Organization Management et al., 2001; Shinn, Wong, Simko, & Ortiz-Torres, 1989; Thomas & Ganst”
Decision-Making Patterns and Contraceptive Use: Evidence from Uganda (2010, background): “Fuwa (2004) has shown that individual attributes matter less in determining household division of labor in less egalitarian countries.”
Housework over the course of relationships: Gender ideology, resources, and the division of housework from a growth curve perspective (2016, background): “Among the advanced economies, gender inequality in housework hours has been shown to be related to national levels of gender equity (Breen & Cooke, 2005; Fuwa, 2004; Hummelsheim & Hirschle, 2010; Stier & Lewin-Epstein, 2007).”
Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “In a bargaining framework, it is also important to consider potential, rather than actual, income as determinant of outside options and threat points (Fuwa, 2004; Aizer, 2010).”