Spouses in the Household and the Family Business – Who (does) the Care and Who (does) the Work

• Authors: Tatjana Djuric Kuzmanovic , Slobodanka Markov , Jelena Fischer , Sonja Mandic
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this pilot study we explore the mutual conditionality of bargaining power between spouses in the processes of intra-household allocation of resources (care work) and the assignment of their roles in family businesses (paid work) in Vojvodina, Serbia. Our intention is to explain the changes in gender relations in family businesses run by spouses under different socio-economic and institutional conditions, and especially in the context of enforced postsocialist neoliberal transformation after 2009. We formulate a theoretical and methodological framework based on the case of ten firms and check its validity for deeper and wider research into the key causes, forms and characteristics of gender bias in this area.

Keywords

EN

care work; family business; gender role; household; unitary and bargaining models

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 190-208

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-02-29

Contributors

author

Tatjana Djuric Kuzmanovic

• Novi Sad Business School, 4, V. Perica Valtera 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

author

Slobodanka Markov

• University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovic 4, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia,

author

Jelena Fischer

• University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6

author

Sonja Mandic

• University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/genst-2016-0012