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Rozdělení domácích prací v rodinách s dětmi

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Bierzova J.
Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)
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2006
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vol. 7
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issue 1
19-26
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The study examines the division of household labour in Czech families with underage children and gender differences in the extent and type of household activities. The paper discusses the different approaches to explaining the division of household labour as well as criticisms of these approaches. The neoclassical economic theory of rational choice, the relative resources theory, the time availability hypotheses, the gender ideology approach and the socialisation theories are presented. The theoretical part is followed by an analysis of data from sociological survey of the families with underage children. This survey confirmed that women's overall household labour time is far greater than men's. Men spent an average of 1.83 hours a day on housework, compared to an average of 4.1 hours each day for women. The number of hours spent on housework is mostly dependent on gender and income. Women do the majority of the household task (including preparing meals, washing, ironing, cleaning house and so on), men are mostly responsible for minor repairs.
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GENDERED HOUSEWORK. A CROSS-EUROPEAN ANALYSIS

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Voicu B., Voicu M., Strapcova K.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2007
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vol. 39
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issue 6
502-521
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The paper focuses on the factors which influence the sharing of domestic work in European countries. Many previous studies have offered explanations on the individual level, taking into account only individual characteristics when predicting a spouse's contribution to chores. Using multilevel regression models, we try to combine the individual-level and country-level factors in order to draw an explanatory model for the gendered sharing of housework within couples across the European societies. The analysis provides support for most of the theories we have tested. The resource theory and the dependency/bargaining hypothesis were confirmed: in a couple, when one of the partners has more resources or a better status, the other spouse uses relatively more hours for the housework. On the other hand, religious and gender values play an important role: the more secular and more oriented towards gender equality a couple is in thinking, the more equally the partners share their housework. However, on the average, all over the world, women spend more hours on housework than men do. The country-level indicators seem to be less important, but the societies which are more affluent, less materialist societies, post-communist societies, societies where women are more present in public life, and those where Catholicism is not the dominant religion are characterized by a more equalitarian sharing of the housework.
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