Sociology Seminar 
Time: :12:15 pm – 13:30 pm

Date: 23th of October
Room : 3049

Katia BEGALL (Radboud University) – “Of Apples and Trees: A Dyadic Approach to the Intergenerational Transmission of Household Work”

Abstract :

“Despite widespread support for egalitarian family models and women’s gains in socio-economic position vis-à-vis their male partners, gendered divisions of labour in contemporary households persist, challenging previously dominant theoretical explanations. The present study combines mechanisms of intergenerational transmission and interactional accountability (‘doing gender’) to develop and test predictions about how parental divisions of labor relate to couples’ current household labor patterns. A dyadic perspective accounts for the interdependence between partners, testing how men’s and women’s own upbringing as well as their partner’s early family experiences jointly shape couples’ housework division across different life-course phases. The explanatory power of the parental division of household and childcare tasks is compared to those of other well-known indicators of gendered socialization such as maternal employment and religious upbringing. Using data from a representative sample of roughly 3,000 Dutch couples in the LISS panel study, I estimate actor-partner-interdependence models to examine these dual influences. Results point to similarity in partners’ parental divisions of labor as one avenue for the reproduction of gendered divisions. Moreover, women’s early experiences with the parental division of labor appear to be more relevant and robust predictors of their own and their partners’ reported housework than men’s.”

Lien Zoom :  https://zoom.us/j/91488788416?pwd=kT3ay9be2JOD0irRpPMw3WcuRqlDaa.1

Organizers:
Paola TUBARO (Pôle sociologie CREST)

Patrick PRÄG (Pôle sociologie CREST)

Julia NICOLAS  (Pôle sociologie CREST)

Sponsors:
CREST