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Women’s pre-marriage income and the division of household labour
Applied Economics ( IF 1.916 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-28 , DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1948964
Min-Su Chung 1 , Keunjae Lee 2
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ABSTRACT

This study investigates the effects of women’s economic resources on the division of household labour by employing pre-marriage income as a proxy for resources, rather than post-marriage income. Post-marriage income has been substantially used in the literature; however, it would be the consequence rather than the cause of spousal labour division. Since many married women reduce their working hours to focus on household tasks and their income decreases after marriage, the reverse causality could overestimate the economic power effect on housework allocation. Based on pre-marriage income data of South Korean households, the present study shows that women’s high relative income does not significantly decrease their time and share of housework. Furthermore, wives’ economic superiority after marriage over the husbands seems to increase their household labour because the wives intend to restore gender identity. In conclusion, traditional gender norms have a greater influence on the division of housework than economic efficiency. Therefore, policy efforts must encourage couples to share their housework equally, such as gender-neutral education and paternity protection system.



中文翻译:

女性婚前收入与家庭分工

摘要

本研究通过使用婚前收入而非婚后收入作为资源的代理,调查了女性经济资源对家庭劳动分工的影响。婚后收入已在文献中大量使用;然而,这将是夫妻分工的结果而不是原因。由于许多已婚女性减少工作时间专注于家务劳动,而婚后收入减少,反向因果关系可能高估了经济权力对家务分配的影响。根据韩国家庭的婚前收入数据,本研究表明,女性相对较高的收入并没有显着减少她们的家务时间和份额。此外,婚后妻子在经济上比丈夫优越似乎增加了她们的家务劳动,因为妻子们打算恢复性别认同。总之,传统的性别规范对家务分工的影响大于经济效率。因此,政策努力必须鼓励夫妻平等分担家务,例如性别中立的教育和亲子保护制度。

更新日期:2021-07-28
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