This article examines whether reducing care and housework duties and redistributing them
within different-sex couples could further enhance gender equality on the labor market in …

BACKGROUND Dual-earner families are widespread in contemporary Europe, yet the
division of housework is highly gendered, with women still bearing the lion's share …

This chapter reviews the main theoretical perspectives and key recent empirical research on
the gender division of housework. We focus on unpaid housework, but where relevant also …

We examine the relationship between female contribution to household income and the
division of housework between the partners, while accounting for their attitutes towards …

Over the past decades, the gender gap in housework has become smaller and scholars
have called on changing structural conditions and on the diffusion of egalitarian gender …

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 …

This study is the first to explicitly assess the connections between welfare state spending
and the gendered and classed dimensions of unpaid care work across 29 European …

Since the millennium, the labour market participation of women and mothers is increasing
across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At …

Gender inequalities in work–family balance have wide-reaching ramifications: women
shoulder the greatest burden of unpaid work and care, both decreasing their opportunities …

Objectives This article analyzes how couples allocate housework against the backdrop of
three questions:(1) Does an individual's income—both in absolute and relative terms …