services and high-skilled women respond by working more or having more children. …

Paid and unpaid work are still distributed very unequally between men and women in Germany. Regardless of time … restrictions imposed by gainful employment, there is a gender- specific gap in time spent on housework and child care (gender care … gap). The total volume of paid and unpaid work on weekdays is roughly the same for men and women (approx. 11 hours …

This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse … greater share of the housework on weekdays. In dual-earner couples, both husbands and wives experience higher spousal … satisfaction when the other spouse performs more housework on weekdays. Japanese dual-earner couples are unable to spend more time …