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Paternal Part-Time Employment and Fathers' Long-Term Involvement in Child Care and Housework
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Abstract [Objective:] This study examines whether paternal part-time employment is related to greater involvement by fathers in child care and housework, both while fathers are working part-time and after they return to full-time employment. [Background:] The study draws on four strands of theory—time availa... view more
[Objective:] This study examines whether paternal part-time employment is related to greater involvement by fathers in child care and housework, both while fathers are working part-time and after they return to full-time employment. [Background:] The study draws on four strands of theory—time availability, bargaining, gender ideology, and gender construction. It studies couples' division of labor in Germany, where policies increasingly support a dual-earner, dual-carer model. [Method:] The study uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1991 to 2015 on employed adult fathers living together with at least one child younger than age 17 and the mother. The analytic sample comprises 51,230 observations on 8,915 fathers. Fixed effects regression techniques are used to estimate the effect of (previous) part-time employment on fathers' child-care hours, housework hours, and share of child care and housework. [Results:] Fathers did more child care and housework while they worked part time. Yet, most fathers reverted to previous levels of involvement after returning to full-time work. The only exception was fathers with partners in full-time employment, who spent more time doing child care and took on a greater share of housework after part-time employment than before. [Conclusion:] The findings are largely consistent with the time availability perspective, although the results for fathers with full-time employed partners indicate that the relative resources and gender ideology perspectives have some explanatory power as well.... view less
Keywords
fatherhood; child care; housework; family work; division of labor; labor force participation; part-time work; working hours; dual career couple; gender role; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Free Keywords
fixed-effects models
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 1-21
Journal
Journal of Marriage and Family, 81 (2019)
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207006
ISSN
1741-3737
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed