Gender,justice and work: A distributive approach to perceptions of housework fairness |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Social Work, University of Southern California, United States;2. Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, University of Southern California, United States;3. School of Social Work, Arizona State University, United States;4. Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Research and Innovation, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, United States;5. Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, United States;1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento;2. Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences,University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento;3. Women''s Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento |
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| Abstract: | Most women and men report that the division of domestic labor in their household is fair, despite women undertaking approximately seventy percent of housework. This raises questions about how fairness is evaluated within partnerships. We explore how parenthood and relationship transitions affect perceptions of housework fairness using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey and panel regression models. Our results indicate that net of actual housework divisions, socio-demographic factors, time availability and relative resources, the transition to parenthood increases women’s perceptions of housework fairness immediately following the birth of a child, but decreases them in the long run. Relationship transitions have no independent effects. Our findings suggest that parenthood transitions are associated with changes in women’s identity, cognitive evaluations of fairness and feelings of entitlement, as indicated by distributive justice theory. |
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| Keywords: | Gender Housework Fairness Distributive justice Life course transitions Panel data |
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