Quelle: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 30 (2018) 1, S 96-119
Inhalt: Educational expansion, the massive increase of women’s labor force participation, and assortative mating have reduced asymmetries in educational achievements and in career resources between women and men in virtually every Western society. This paper provides an analysis of the association between partners' education, parenthood, and spouses' relative labor supply in East and West Germany. Education is considered from two angles: as an indicator for resources on the labor market or as an indicator for gender attitudes. We apply cross-sectional data from the 2011 German Microcensus, comprising 57,366 couple households. For our estimations, we use General Linear Models. Because of high case numbers, we are able to estimate several interaction effects in statistical powerful detail. We find that (1) a woman's share of paid work is higher, the higher she is educated; (2) women with higher education than their male partners realize higher shares of relative employment (in comparison to other women); (3) women rarely realize a share of 50% or higher on average in any educational composition; (4) especially young children have a huge impact on women's labor supply; and (5) women's comparative educational advantages are more important for their share of paid work in West than in East Germany. Neither interpretation of relative education can explain the overall picture of couples’ division of paid work alone. Depending on parenthood, the age of the youngest child in the household, and the regional context, either normative, or economic exchanges between partners seem to drive the association between relative education, and relative labor supply of women. We demonstrate the usefulness of two theoretical approaches of framing education as an explanatory concept.
Schlagwörter:Partnerschaft; partnership; Bildungsniveau; level of education; Erwerbsbeteiligung; labor force participation; Elternschaft; parenthood; gender-specific factors; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; women's employment; Familie; family; Federal Republic of Germany; alte Bundesländer; old federal states; neue Bundesländer; New Federal States
SSOAR Kategorie:Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Navigating between two cultures: immigrants' gender attitudes toward working women
Autor/in:
Pessin, Léa; Arpino, Bruno
Quelle: Demographic Research, 38 (2018) , S 967-1016
Inhalt: Background: Gender attitudes toward women’s employment are of particular importance because they positively influence gender-equal outcomes in the labor market. Our understanding of the mechanisms that promote egalitarian gender attitudes among immigrants, however, remains limited. Objective: By studying first- and second-generation immigrants from multiple origins and living in different countries, this article seeks to explain under what conditions the prevalent cultural attitudes toward gender roles at the origin and destination influence immigrants' gender attitudes. We address three main research questions. First, does the country-of-origin gender ideology influence immigrants' views toward working women? Second, does the country-of-destination gender ideology influence immigrants' views toward working women? And third, are these relationships moderated by (1) the immigrant generation; (2) the age at arrival in the country of destination; (3) the length of residence at the destination? Methods: Using data from the European Social Survey, we model immigrants' gender attitudes toward working women by using linear cross-classified models to account for clustering into the country of origin and destination. Results: The results highlight the importance of the context of early socialization in shaping immigrants' gender attitudes. First-generation immigrants, and more specifically adult migrants, hold gender attitudes that reflect more strongly the country of origin’s gender culture. In contrast, the positive association between gender ideology at destination and immigrants' gender attitudes is stronger among second-generation immigrants and child migrants. Contribution: We add to the literature on gender ideology formation by analyzing the influence of gender ideology at the origin and destination levels on the gender attitudes of immigrants from 96 countries of origin and residing across 32 countries of destination.
Schlagwörter:women's employment; Wertorientierung; first generation; gender role; erste Generation; value-orientation; kulturelle Faktoren; Migrant; Sozialisation; Geschlechtsrolle; socialization; country of origin; second generation; Einwanderung; berufstätige Frau; cultural factors; attitude; migrant; Herkunftsland; working woman; gender-specific factors; immigration; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Einstellung; zweite Generation; cross-classified model; European Social Survey; European Values Study; female labor force participation; gender attitudes; World Values Survey
Gender role attitudes in Italy: 1988-2008 - a path-dependency story of traditionalism
Autor/in:
Lomazzi, Vera
Quelle: European Societies, 19 (2017) 4, S 370-395
Inhalt: Considering gender role attitudes as part of a broader cultural change related to the modernization process, this study adopts a path-dependency approach to analyze the support for the role of women in the public sphere in Italy since 1988. Modernization processes varied across Italian regions and the paper explores how different gender patterns developed accordingly. Using pooled data from European Values Survey, World Values Survey, and International Social Survey Program, the author assesses if this specific change is part of the postmaterialist shift and investigates the mechanisms of change carrying out cohort decomposition methods. The results address a reinforcement of traditionalism mainly due to the period effect that shows regional differences given by history.
Essalltag und Arbeitsteilung von Eltern in Paarbeziehungen - eine quantitative Analyse auf Basis der repräsentativen Zeitverwendungsdaten 2012/13 und 2001/02
Titelübersetzung:Everyday food routines and division of labor in two-parent households - a quantitative analysis based on the German representative Time Use Survey 2012/13 and 2001/02
Autor/in:
Klünder, Nina; Meier-Gräwe, Uta
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 29 (2017) 2, S 179-201
Inhalt: "Der Beitrag untersucht die zeitliche Gestaltung sowie die innerfamiliale Arbeitsteilung des Essalltags von Müttern und Vätern in Paarbeziehungen differenziert nach deren Erwerbsumfang. Die Sekundäranalyse erfolgt auf Basis der repräsentativen Zeitverwendungsdaten 2012/13 und 2001/02, wobei drei Paarkonstellationen untersucht werden: Doppelverdiener-Paare, weibliche Zuverdiener-Paare sowie Paare mit männlichem Familienernährer. Die Analyse des Essalltags zeigt, dass der Erwerbsstatus der Mutter die zeitliche Gestaltung des Essalltags beeinflusst. Je höher dieser ist, desto weniger Zeit wird für die Ernährungsversorgung aufgewendet. Darüber hinaus hat sich die tägliche Zeitverwendung für die Ernährungsversorgung von 2001/02 bis 2012/13 reduziert, wobei die stärksten Einsparungen bei vollzeiterwerbstätigen Müttern zu konstatieren sind. Väter engagieren sich verstärkt am Wochenende bei der Mahlzeitenzubereitung, gleichwohl liegt die Verantwortung insgesamt bei den Müttern. Ebenso beeinflussen Alter und Anzahl der Kinder die Zeitverwendung für die Ernährungsversorgung. Letztlich kann in keiner untersuchten Paarkonstellation eine egalitäre Arbeitsteilung zur Gestaltung des Essalltags festgestellt werden. Vielmehr dominieren relativ ausgeprägte geschlechtsspezifische Arrangements." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The article examines the division of labor for everyday food routines of two-parent households depending on their labor force participation. Using data from the representative German Time Use Survey 2001/02 and 2012/13, three different pairs were formed: dual-earner couples, couples with additional female income and male-breadwinner couples Findings show that mother’s employment influences the time used for everyday food routines: It was found that the higher the employment rate of mothers, the less time was spent on food routine activities. Furthermore, the daily time used for everyday food routines was reduced from 2001/02 to 2012/13. The largest reductions were seen in the group of mothers working fulltime. Besides that, fathers were more engaged in meal preparation on the weekends, although the responsibility was the mother’s. In addition, the age and number of children in a household influenced the time used for everyday food routines. However, none of the examined pair constellations can help determine an egalitarian division of everyday food routines. There is still a labor division by gender." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Eltern; parents; Ernährung; nutrition; Essverhalten; eating behavior; Zeitverwendung; time budgeting; Erwerbsbeteiligung; labor force participation; Mutter; mother; Arbeitsteilung; division of labor; gender-specific factors; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; women's employment; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Hausarbeit; housework; Federal Republic of Germany
SSOAR Kategorie:Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Family migration in a cross-national perspective: the importance of within-couple employment arrangements in
Australia, Britain, Germany, and Sweden
Autor/in:
Vidal, Sergi; Perales, Francisco; Lersch, Philipp M.; Brandén, Maria
Quelle: Demographic Research, 36 (2017) , S 307-338
Inhalt: Objective: Migration rates of dual-earner couples are lower than those of male-breadwinner couples. We revisit this issue using a cross-national comparative perspective and examine heterogeneity in the role of female employment in couple relocations. We propose a theoretical framework in which national levels of support for female employment and normative expectations about gender roles act as moderators of the relationship between couple type (i.e., dual-earner and male-breadwinner) and family migration. Methods: We deploy discrete-time event history analyses of harmonised longitudinal data from four large-scale datasets from Australia, Britain, Germany, and Sweden, covering the 1992-2011 period. Results: Consistent with prior research, we find that male-breadwinner couples migrate more often than dual-earner couples in all countries, suggesting that traditional gender structures affecting family migration operate across very different contexts. We also find cross-country differences in the estimated effects of different sorts of absolute and relative partner resources on family migration. Conclusions: We take our results as preliminary evidence that national contexts can serve as moderators of the relationship between within-couple employment arrangements and family migration decisions. Contribution: Our study contributes to family migration literature by illustrating how cross-national comparisons are a valuable methodological approach to put prevailing micro-level explanations of the relationship between female employment and family migration in context.
Schlagwörter:Dual Career Couple; dual career couple; Migration; migration; regionale Mobilität; regional mobility; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; women's employment; Arbeitsteilung; division of labor; gender-specific factors; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Familie-Beruf; work-family balance; Familienpolitik; family policy; internationaler Vergleich; international comparison; Australien; Australia; Großbritannien; Great Britain; Federal Republic of Germany; Schweden; Sweden; cross-national comparison; dual-earner couples; event history analysis; family migration; institutional context
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
Gender role attitudes in Italy: 1988-2008 - a path-dependency story of traditionalism
Autor/in:
Lomazzi, Vera
Quelle: European Societies, 19 (2017) 4, S 370-395
Inhalt: Considering gender role attitudes as part of a broader cultural change related to the modernization process, this study adopts a path-dependency approach to analyze the support for the role of women in the public sphere in Italy since 1988. Modernization processes varied across Italian regions and the paper explores how different gender patterns developed accordingly. Using pooled data from European Values Survey, World Values Survey, and International Social Survey Program, the author assesses if this specific change is part of the postmaterialist shift and investigates the mechanisms of change carrying out cohort decomposition methods. The results address a reinforcement of traditionalism mainly due to the period effect that shows regional differences given by history.
Essalltag und Arbeitsteilung von Eltern in Paarbeziehungen - eine quantitative Analyse auf Basis der repräsentativen Zeitverwendungsdaten 2012/13 und 2001/02
Titelübersetzung:Everyday food routines and division of labor in two-parent households - a quantitative analysis based on the German representative Time Use Survey 2012/13 and 2001/02
Autor/in:
Klünder, Nina; Meier-Gräwe, Uta
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 29 (2017) 2, S 179-201
Inhalt: "Der Beitrag untersucht die zeitliche Gestaltung sowie die innerfamiliale Arbeitsteilung des Essalltags von Müttern und Vätern in Paarbeziehungen differenziert nach deren Erwerbsumfang. Die Sekundäranalyse erfolgt auf Basis der repräsentativen Zeitverwendungsdaten 2012/13 und 2001/02, wobei drei Paarkonstellationen untersucht werden: Doppelverdiener-Paare, weibliche Zuverdiener-Paare sowie Paare mit männlichem Familienernährer. Die Analyse des Essalltags zeigt, dass der Erwerbsstatus der Mutter die zeitliche Gestaltung des Essalltags beeinflusst. Je höher dieser ist, desto weniger Zeit wird für die Ernährungsversorgung aufgewendet. Darüber hinaus hat sich die tägliche Zeitverwendung für die Ernährungsversorgung von 2001/02 bis 2012/13 reduziert, wobei die stärksten Einsparungen bei vollzeiterwerbstätigen Müttern zu konstatieren sind. Väter engagieren sich verstärkt am Wochenende bei der Mahlzeitenzubereitung, gleichwohl liegt die Verantwortung insgesamt bei den Müttern. Ebenso beeinflussen Alter und Anzahl der Kinder die Zeitverwendung für die Ernährungsversorgung. Letztlich kann in keiner untersuchten Paarkonstellation eine egalitäre Arbeitsteilung zur Gestaltung des Essalltags festgestellt werden. Vielmehr dominieren relativ ausgeprägte geschlechtsspezifische Arrangements." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The article examines the division of labor for everyday food routines of two-parent households depending on their labor force participation. Using data from the representative German Time Use Survey 2001/02 and 2012/13, three different pairs were formed: dual-earner couples, couples with additional female income and male-breadwinner couples Findings show that mother’s employment influences the time used for everyday food routines: It was found that the higher the employment rate of mothers, the less time was spent on food routine activities. Furthermore, the daily time used for everyday food routines was reduced from 2001/02 to 2012/13. The largest reductions were seen in the group of mothers working fulltime. Besides that, fathers were more engaged in meal preparation on the weekends, although the responsibility was the mother’s. In addition, the age and number of children in a household influenced the time used for everyday food routines. However, none of the examined pair constellations can help determine an egalitarian division of everyday food routines. There is still a labor division by gender." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Eltern; parents; Ernährung; nutrition; Essverhalten; eating behavior; Zeitverwendung; time budgeting; Erwerbsbeteiligung; labor force participation; Mutter; mother; Arbeitsteilung; division of labor; gender-specific factors; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; women's employment; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Hausarbeit; housework; Federal Republic of Germany
SSOAR Kategorie:Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
The association between norms and actions: the case of men's participation in housework
Titelübersetzung:Die Korrespondenz von normativen Vorstellungen und Handeln: das Beispiel männlicher Hausarbeit
Autor/in:
Grunow, Daniela
Quelle: Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft, 39 (2014) 3, S 521-558
Inhalt: "Gender and family researchers are often puzzled by the differences between gender norms and actual behaviour. For example, many previous studies have shown that since the 1970s, attitudes have changed toward more modern gender role beliefs. However, this is generally not reflected in behaviour, this being especially true for men's involvement in housework and care work. In this paper, we analyse to what extent gender norms correspond with men's participation in housework. We examine in particular cooking, vacuum-cleaning and doing the laundry, because these activities reflect pronounced variation in norms and actions with regard to modern and traditional gender role attitudes. Going beyond previous research, which assesses the general influence of norms on practices, we investigate the relative impact of different types of gender ideologies, namely the strength with which respondents endorse (1) the male provider and female homemaker model, (2) women's employment, (3) employment as men's primary role, and (4) men's participation in unpaid work. Our empirical findings indicate that positive attitudes towards male contributions to housework are a key predictor of men's housework." (author's abstract)
Die Korrespondenz von normativen Vorstellungen und Handeln: das Beispiel männlicher Hausarbeit
Titelübersetzung:The association between norms and actions: the case of men's participation in housework
Autor/in:
Grunow, Daniela
Quelle: Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft, 39 (2014) 3, S 479-520
Inhalt: "In der Geschlechter- und Familienforschung wird immer wieder eine Diskrepanz zwischen normativen Vorstellungen und faktischem Handeln festgestellt. Zahlreiche Studien belegen, dass seit den 1970er Jahren auf der Ebene der Werte und Einstellungen ein deutlicher Modernisierungstrend hin zu egalitären Geschlechterrollen stattgefunden hat, der sich aber in der Alltagspraxis kaum niederschlägt. Dies gilt insbesondere für die Beteiligung von Männern an der Hausarbeit. Am Beispiel des Staubsaugens, Wäschewaschens und Kochens geht der Beitrag daher der Frage nach, inwiefern individuelle normative Überzeugungen mit dem Handeln von Männern korrespondieren. Diese drei Tätigkeiten wurden ausgewählt, da frühere Studien darauf hindeuten, dass hier sowohl auf der Einstellungs- als auch auf der Handlungsebene die größten Diskrepanzen zwischen traditionellen und modernen Geschlechterrollen zu finden sind. Untersucht wird nicht nur der allgemeine Einfluss von Geschlechterrollenbildern, sondern auch der relative Einfluss verschiedener konkreter normativer Überzeugungen, namentlich (1) die Stärke der Orientierung am Ernährer-Hausfrau-Modell, (2) die Befürwortung weiblicher Berufstätigkeit, (3) die Einstellung zur Erwerbsarbeit als zentrale Aufgabe des Mannes und (4) die Einstellung zur männlichen Reproduktionsarbeit. Empirisch zeigt sich, dass vor allem individuelle Einstellungen zur männlichen Reproduktionsarbeit für männliche Beteiligung an der Hausarbeit relevant sind." (Autorenreferat)
Deciphering political utopias: unions, female night work and gender justice
Titelübersetzung:Politische Utopien entziffern: Gewerkschaften, Nachtarbeit von Frauen und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit
Autor/in:
Morgenroth, Christine
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 13 (2012) 3, 19 S
Inhalt: "Die Gruppendiskussion als qualitative Methode ist vorzüglich geeignet, überindividuelle Haltungen und Meinungen zu untersuchen und ihren Entstehungsprozess zu verfolgen. Psychoanalytische Gruppentheorien erweitern das Verständnis von Gruppenprozessen um eine unbewusste Dimension: Auch in Gruppen und Institutionen gibt es Abwehr und Verdrängung. Durch diese Erweiterung kann gezeigt werden, wie innerhalb sozialer Gruppen auch wichtige Themen gemeinsam unbewusst gemacht werden können. Auf diese Weise reproduziert sich aktuell ein gesellschaftlicher Abwehrprozess. In Gruppendiskussionen von Gewerkschafterinnen wird die Not der erwerbstätigen Mütter besonders deutlich. Ein Textbeispiel zeigt, dass die Frauen scheinbar Nachtarbeit als eine Lösung ihres Vereinbarkeitsproblems begreifen. Erst die Anwendung einer psychoanalytischen Hermeneutik, des szenischen Verstehens, vermag zu zeigen, dass hinter der paradoxen Forderung ein verdrängter Lebensentwurf steht: die Sehnsucht nach Aufhebung der Trennung von produktiver und reproduktiver Arbeit für beide Geschlechter. Die wird nur möglich, wenn auch Gewerkschaften das Geschlechterverhältnis als politische Aufgabe begreifen." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The group discussion is a qualitative method perfectly suited for analyzing attitudes and opinions at the supra-individual level and tracing the process of how they emerge. Psychoanalytic group theories expand our understanding of group processes by adding the dimension of the unconscious: groups, too, display defense reactions and forms of repression. By adding this dimension, we can show how social groups proceed to collectively relegate important issues to the realm of the unconscious. In this way, social defense processes are reproduced in actu. In group discussions involving female union members, the predicament of working mothers comes to the fore particularly clearly. An excerpt from a group discussion illustrates that the women seem to perceive night work as the only realistic solution to the problem of reconciling work and family. Only when we turn to a psychoanalytic hermeneutics of scenic understanding are we able to reveal a repressed conception of life looming behind the paradoxical demand: the desire to overcome the separation of productive and reproductive labor in the lives of both sexes; a desire that can only be achieved if labor unions, too, perceive gender relations as a political challenge demanding their attention. " (author's abstract)
SSOAR Kategorie:Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften