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Men Don't Do That: Gender Segregation of Domestic Division of Labour
Davor TOPOLČIĆ
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Contrary to a long global trend of researching the domestic
division of labour between marital partners, for social
scientists in Croatia it has been a completely marginal field
of study from the mid-seventies up to the end of the century.
The reason for this is buried in the roots of social
circumstances: in the socialist period in the sphere of public
relations the equality of the sexes was proclaimed, but
without entering the sphere of private and family relations. In
the nine-year postsocialist transitional period the political
parties and options supporting "traditional family values"
dominated. Furthermore, war circumstances and a deep
economic crisis worked in the same direction backtracking
towards traditional patterns of family life. Among the
empirical research projects of the division of unpaid labour
in the family, in foreign as well as domestic professional
literature, there have been but few that include gender
segregation of labour into "male" and "female". The main
goal of this work was to ascertain the extent to which
domestic labour is exposed to gender segregation. In the
paper, data obtained within the framework of a broader pilot
research of characteristics of family life have been used. The
answers of a total of 152 examinees who were married and
employed at the time were analysed. The results suggest (1)
that domestic labour division between marital partners is still
discriminating, with a much greater work involvement of
women; (2) that men look after children more than they are
engaged in carrying out domestic chores; (3) that domestic
labour is greatly exposed to gender segregation, which is
also confirmed by the results of the logit analysis.
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Hrčak ID:
20003
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Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2001.
Posjeta: 5.870 *