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| Titre : | Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work (2021) |
| Auteurs : | Eleonora Matteazzi ; Stefani Scherer |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Work, employment and society (vol. 35, n° 3, June 2021) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 490–508 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ MENAGE ; RELATION TRAVAIL-FAMILLE ; FEMME ; TRAVAIL DOMESTIQUE ; DIVISION SEXUELLE DU TRAVAIL ; SALAIRE ; INEGALITE SALARIALE ; COMPARAISON INTERNATIONALE ; ETATS UNIS ; ALLEMAGNE ; ITALIEOrganisme Cité EU-SILC - European Union-Survey on Income and Living Conditions ; PSID - Panel Study of Income Dynamics |
| Résumé : | Women still earn less than men and continue to perform the bulk of domestic activities. Several studies documented a negative individual wage–housework relation, suggesting that gender discrepancies in housework may explain the gender wage gap. Less attention has been paid to the role of the partner’s unpaid work and to the extent that intra-household inequalities relate to inequalities outside the house. The present study attempts to fill this gap in the literature. We exploit EU-SILC 2010 data for Germany and Italy and PSID 2009 data for the US. Results suggest the importance of accounting for a partner’s housework when evaluating the determinants of individual wages and the gender wage gap. Women seem not to profit from their partners’ housework; instead, women’s non-market work increases their partners’ earnings while decreasing their own earnings. This suggests the importance of reducing women’s involvement in domestic work in order to close gender wage equalities. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020937936 |
