Parenthood and the gender division of labour across the income distribution:: the relative importance of relative earnings.

ABSTRACT: This study employs a gendered relative resource approach to examine whether the importance of relative resources in shaping changes in the gender division of labor after first birth varies by couples' household income. A substantial body of scholarship has argued that the gender division of labor within different-sex couples is influenced by partners' relative resources. However, couples face class-based constraints that may alter the relevance of relative resources in shaping changes in gender divisions of labor following the transition to parenthood. This study compares couples' divisions of paid work and housework before and up to four years after first birth, using 28 waves of the British Household Panel Survey and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (N = 1,606 couples). I find that th

SUBMITTER: Dunatchik A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11362713 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature