When the last child moves out: Continuity and convergence in spouses' housework time

IF 2.7 1区 社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES Journal of Marriage and Family Pub Date : 2021-08-11 DOI:10.31235/osf.io/qtpkb
Florian Schulz, M. Raab
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Objective: To examine how mothers’ and fathers’ time allocation for housework changes during the transition to postparenthood, i.e. when the last child moves out of their family households. Background: When the last child moves out, parental households are sized back to the situation before parenthood. Mothers and fathers are released from their direct parenting roles and parental time binds. This transition creates a context in which individual and coupled time allocation are likely to be rearranged. Methods: Changes in mothers’ and fathers’ housework time and mothers’ shares of total housework time were estimated using longitudinal fixed effects regression models, using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (1985-2019) on 1,004 households experiencing the transition to postparenthood. Results: Mothers’ time for housework declined by 11 minutes in the years before and by further 7 minutes per day at the transition to postparenthood, whereas fathers’ time declined by 6 minutes in the year after the last child has moved out of the parental household. Mothers’ share of total housework time remained constant around 72-75 percent around postparenthood. Analyses for different groups and specific tasks revealed no variations in the gendered trajectories of housework time. In general, mothers continued to do the majority of housework despite some slight convergence. Conclusion: The transition to postparenthood contributes slightly to the life-course convergence of housework time and thus, similar to all major life-course transitions following the birth of children, tends to reduce housework inequality in couples.
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最后一个孩子何时搬出去:配偶家务劳动时间的连续性和一致性
目的:研究父母在为人父母后的过渡过程中,即最后一个孩子搬出家庭时,家务劳动的时间分配是如何变化的。背景:当最后一个孩子搬出去时,父母家庭的规模会回到为人父母之前的情况。母亲和父亲从直接养育子女的角色和父母的时间约束中解脱出来。这种转变创造了一种环境,在这种环境中,个体和耦合的时间分配可能会被重新安排。方法:使用纵向固定效应回归模型,使用德国社会经济小组研究(1985-2019)的数据,对1004个经历父母后身份转变的家庭进行了估计,以估计母亲和父亲家务劳动时间的变化以及母亲在家务劳动总时间中所占的份额。结果:母亲做家务的时间在前几年减少了11分钟,在为人父母后的过渡期每天又减少了7分钟,而父亲在最后一个孩子离开父母家庭后的一年中减少了6分钟。在为人父母前后,母亲在家务劳动总时间中所占的比例保持不变,约为72-75%。对不同群体和特定任务的分析显示,家务劳动时间的性别轨迹没有变化。总的来说,母亲们继续做大部分家务,尽管有一些轻微的趋同。结论:为人父母后的转变对家务劳动时间的生命过程收敛有轻微贡献,因此,与孩子出生后的所有主要生命过程转变类似,有助于减少夫妻家务劳动的不平等。
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期刊介绍: For more than 70 years, Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) has been a leading research journal in the family field. JMF features original research and theory, research interpretation and reviews, and critical discussion concerning all aspects of marriage, other forms of close relationships, and families.In 2009, an institutional subscription to Journal of Marriage and Family includes a subscription to Family Relations and Journal of Family Theory & Review.
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