TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nitsche, Natalie
A1  - Grunow, Daniela
T1  - Housework over the course of relationships: gender ideology, resources, and the division of housework from a growth curve perspective
T2  - Advances in life course research
N2  - In the 21st century, the division of housework remains gendered, with women on average still spending more time doing chores than their male partners. While research has studied why this phenomenon is so persistent, few studies have yet been able to assess the effect of gender ideology and socio-economic resources at the same time, usually due to data restrictions. We use data from the pairfam, a new and innovative German panel study, in order to test the effect of absolute and relative resources as well as his and her gender ideology on the division of housework. We employ a life course perspective and analyze trajectories of couples’ housework division over time, using multi-level random effects growth curve models. We find that an egalitarian gender ideology of both him and her significantly predicts more egalitarian division-trajectories, while neither absolute nor relative resources appear to have an effect on the division of housework over time. Furthermore, our results expand the literature by investigating how these processes differ among childless couples and couples who experience the first birth.
KW  - Housework
KW  - Gender
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Growth curve
KW  - Education
KW  - First birth
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/77282
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-772821
SN  - 1040-2608
VL  - 290
SP  - 80
EP  - 94
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -