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Title: | Unemployment and gender equality within the family in Portugal | Other Titles: | Desemprego e Igualdade de Género na Família em Portugal | Authors: | Coelho, Lina Ribeiro, Raquel Valente, Alexandra Ferreira |
Keywords: | Domestic work; Unemployment; Household chores; Gender inequality | Issue Date: | 2015 | Publisher: | APEM | Project: | This article was written within the scope of the project «FINFAM – Finances, Gender and Power: how are Portuguese families managing their finances in the context of the crisis?" (PTDC/IVC-SOC/4823/2012 – FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-029372), financed by ERDF funds through the Operational Programme Factors of Competitiveness (COMPETE) and by national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/COMPETE/131881/PT FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-029372 |
metadata.degois.publication.title: | Ex æquo | metadata.degois.publication.issue: | 32 | metadata.degois.publication.location: | Lisboa | Abstract: | This paper analyses the impact of unemployment on the gender division of household
work. A sample of 643 dual full-time employed couples and 160 with an unemployed
partner was considered. Variance analysis and chi-square tests were performed to
analyse the differential impact of the spouses’ employment status on the time devoted to
domestic and parental work and on the division of household chores among partners.
Results show that male unemployment increases men’s participation in domestic work
only on weekdays while female unemployment constrains women into domestic activities
both on week and weekend days. Gender patterns of task division also showed to relate
significantly to partners’ employment status. O artigo analisa o impacto do desemprego na divisão sexual do trabalho familiar. Foi utilizada uma amostra de 643 casais com duplo emprego a tempo completo e 160 com um parceiro desempregado. Recorreu-se a análises de variância e testes de qui-quadrado para analisar o impacto diferencial da situação dos cônjuges face ao emprego sobre o tempo dedicado ao trabalho doméstico e parental e a divisão das tarefas familiares. Os resultados mostram que o desemprego dos homens aumenta a sua participação somente nos dias de semana, enquanto o desemprego feminino restringe as mulheres às atividades domésticas, todo o tempo. Os padrões de género na repartição de tarefas também revelaram depender de forma significativa da situação profissional dos cônjuges. Cet article analyse l'impact du chômage sur la division sexuelle du travail familial. Un échantillon de 643 couples employés à plein temps et 160 avec un partenaire chômeur a été considéré. Analyses de la variance et tests du chi carré ont été appliqués pour déterminer l'impact différentiel de la situation professionnelle sur le temps de travail domestique et parental et sur la division des tâches ménagères. Les résultats montrent que le chômage des hommes fait accroître leur participation au travail domestique seulement en semaine tandis que le chômage des femmes les contraint aux activités domestiques tout le temps. Les profils de genre des tâches se relient aussi, de manière significative, à la situation professionnelle des partenaires. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/41674 | ISSN: | 0874-5560 2184-0385 |
DOI: | 10.22355/exaequo.2015.32.05 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FEUC- Artigos em Revistas Nacionais I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Nacionais |
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