The impact of gender values on unpaid work in two countries with different welfare traditionsUK and Spain

  1. Romero-Balsas, Pedro 1
  2. O’Brien, Margaret 2
  3. Castrillo Bustamante, Concepción 3
  1. 1 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), España
  2. 2 University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
  3. 3 Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), España
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Revista internacional de sociología

ISSN: 0034-9712

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 78

Issue: 2

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3989/RIS.2020.78.2.18.160 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This study aimed to compare the gap between gender role values and domestic practice in the UK and Spain. The data were drawn from a sample of British and Spanish male and female respondents to the International Social Survey Programme’s (ISSP) ‘Family and Changing Gender Roles’ module (2002, 2012) and used to create multivariate mod­els using ordinary least-squares regression techniques. The findings suggest that gender role values impacts domestic practice: more time is devoted to housework by egalitar­ian than non-egalitarian men and less by egalitarian than non-egalitarian women. That effect was not observed for care-giving, however. The impact of gender values on the division by sex of household chores was found to be similar in the UK and Spain. A gradual move to more egalitarian ideals was also observed in both countries over the 10 year period studied.

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Funding for this study was provided in the form of a José Castillejo visiting scholar grant at University College London (JC2015-00048) and by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the project entitled ‘El cuidado de niños/as menores de 7 años en España’ (CSO2017-84634-R).

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