This article applies a couple perspective to assessing gender inequality in Sweden—a setting with high maternal labour force participation, a long history of family policy investment, and strong norms of gender equality. We address open questions about how couples’ earnings following parenthood have changed over time, and how patterns of inequality in couples’ earnings have played out across educational groups. Our study uses fixed effects methods and register data covering the total population of heterosexual couples giving birth in Sweden between 1987 and 2007 (N = 587,414 couples). It examines change in the female partner’s share of total couple earnings from 2 years before to 8 years after first birth across parent cohorts differentiated by his and her education. Women’s earnings share declines steeply following birth, across all groups. Results show modestly smaller declines among parents in the latest cohort in the year directly following childbirth. Change is most pronounced among couples with a highly educated female partner, and it appears driven by a marked dip in fathers’ earnings that is new to this recent generation of men. Recent movement towards within-couple equality in Sweden appears driven by men’s work adjustments, pointing to an important shift in the allocation of care work within couples.

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1987年至2007年，在瑞典向父母身份转变的过程中，女性在女性相对收入中的发展趋势

本文从几个角度对瑞典的性别不平等进行评估，这是一个孕产妇劳动力参与率高，家庭政策投资历史悠久，性别平等规范严格的环境。我们解决了以下公开问题：育儿后夫妻的收入如何随时间变化，以及各个教育群体之间夫妻收入的不平等模式如何发挥作用。我们的研究使用固定效应方法，并注册了涵盖1987年至2007年在瑞典出生的异性恋夫妇的总人口的数据（N  = 587,414对）。它研究了按性别划分的父母群体中，从第一胎出生前2年到出生后8岁之间，女性伴侣在夫妻总收入中所占份额的变化。妇女在所有群体中的收入份额在出生后都急剧下降。结果显示，在刚出生的那一年的最新队列中，父母的下降幅度较小。在拥有高学历的女性伴侣的夫妻中，变化最为明显，这似乎是由父亲的收入显着下降所驱动的，而这种下降对于这新一代的男性来说是新的。瑞典最近朝着夫妻内部平等的方向发展似乎是由男性工作调整推动的，这表明夫妻之间护理工作分配的重要转变。