Just Living Together

This article tests the assumption that cohabitation makes a difference in the allocation of childcare responsibilities within couples. It has often been assumed that cohabiting individuals are less likely to adhere to traditional gender ideologies than married people, because they tend to have a low...

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Autores: González, María José|||0000-0003-4570-248X, Miret, Pau|||0000-0003-0476-7666, Treviño, Rocío|||0000-0002-5420-5728
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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ECHP
Europe
Gender division of child care
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spelling Just Living Togetherimplications of cohabitation for fathers participation in child care in Western EuropeGonzález, María José|||0000-0003-4570-248XMiret, Pau|||0000-0003-0476-7666Treviño, Rocío|||0000-0002-5420-5728CohabitationECHPEuropeGender division of child careThis article tests the assumption that cohabitation makes a difference in the allocation of childcare responsibilities within couples. It has often been assumed that cohabiting individuals are less likely to adhere to traditional gender ideologies than married people, because they tend to have a lower tolerance for poorly functioning relationships, to assign more value to individual freedom, and to base their relationships on egalitarian individualism, rather than on the joint utility maximisation of married couples. So far, however, most studies have focused on the determinants and consequences of being in cohabitation, and have overlooked the gender implications of this living arrangement. Here we explore whether fathers in consensual unions are more prone than fathers in marital unions to share childcare responsibilities with their female partners. We use multilevel regression models for panel data to analyse ECHP in the period between 1996 and 2001. Our sample included around 13,000 couples living in heterosexual partnerships with small children (at least one child below age 13), and yielded around 45,000 observations over this period of time in 10 Western European nations. We found weak evidence of the influence of cohabitation, relative to marriage, on gender equality, but we also discovered that the diffusion of cohabitation at the societal level is associated with a more equal allocation of child care between partners. 22010-01-0120102010-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/165075https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.16reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengMinisterio de Educación y Ciencia SEJ2007-62684Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 CSO2008-00654Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia SEJ2007-67569open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:1650752026-06-06T12:50:31Z
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implications of cohabitation for fathers participation in child care in Western Europe
title Just Living Together
spellingShingle Just Living Together
González, María José|||0000-0003-4570-248X
Cohabitation
ECHP
Europe
Gender division of child care
title_short Just Living Together
title_full Just Living Together
title_fullStr Just Living Together
title_full_unstemmed Just Living Together
title_sort Just Living Together
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv González, María José|||0000-0003-4570-248X
Miret, Pau|||0000-0003-0476-7666
Treviño, Rocío|||0000-0002-5420-5728
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author_facet González, María José|||0000-0003-4570-248X
Miret, Pau|||0000-0003-0476-7666
Treviño, Rocío|||0000-0002-5420-5728
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Treviño, Rocío|||0000-0002-5420-5728
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Cohabitation
ECHP
Europe
Gender division of child care
topic Cohabitation
ECHP
Europe
Gender division of child care
description This article tests the assumption that cohabitation makes a difference in the allocation of childcare responsibilities within couples. It has often been assumed that cohabiting individuals are less likely to adhere to traditional gender ideologies than married people, because they tend to have a lower tolerance for poorly functioning relationships, to assign more value to individual freedom, and to base their relationships on egalitarian individualism, rather than on the joint utility maximisation of married couples. So far, however, most studies have focused on the determinants and consequences of being in cohabitation, and have overlooked the gender implications of this living arrangement. Here we explore whether fathers in consensual unions are more prone than fathers in marital unions to share childcare responsibilities with their female partners. We use multilevel regression models for panel data to analyse ECHP in the period between 1996 and 2001. Our sample included around 13,000 couples living in heterosexual partnerships with small children (at least one child below age 13), and yielded around 45,000 observations over this period of time in 10 Western European nations. We found weak evidence of the influence of cohabitation, relative to marriage, on gender equality, but we also discovered that the diffusion of cohabitation at the societal level is associated with a more equal allocation of child care between partners.
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