The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … average to about half as much time as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, a difference that is … driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of …

The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … average to about half as much time as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, a difference that is … driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of …

To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … vs. B. Women respond strongly to the salience of Norms; they opt for Career at a significantly lower rate compared to …

production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate … work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the … GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labour supply. We theoretically explain this …

production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate … work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the … GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labour supply. We theoretically explain this …