Gender gaps in daily time usage at different ages vary between countries
Cultural context appears to influence how men versus women spend time on employment, housework, care-giving and other activities throughout life
Date:
March 9, 2022
Source:
PLOS
Summary:
A new, 10-country analysis identifies between-nation differences in
the amount of time men and women spend on various daily activities
at different stages of life.
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A new, 10-country analysis identifies between-nation differences in
the amount of time men and women spend on various daily activities
at different stages of life. Joan Garci'a Roma'n of Centre d'Estudis Demogra?fics in Bellaterra, Spain, and Pablo Gracia of Trinity College
in Dublin, Ireland, present these findings in the open-access journal
PLOS ONE on March 9, 2022.
========================================================================== Despite progress, gender inequalities remain in time use, with women
more active in domestic chores and men more active in paid work. Prior
research has illuminated, in particular, how parenthood magnifies these disparities.
However, it has been unclear how different cultural contexts might affect gender disparities in time use from childhood through late adulthood.
To provide new insights, Garci'a Roma'n and Gracia analyzed data from the Multinational Time Use study, in which participants tracked their daily
time usage in diaries. The time-diary data included entries recorded from
2005 to 2015 by more than 200,000 participants from 10 countries in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Statistical analysis found that, for all 10 countries, the biggest
disparities in time use between men and women were in the areas of
housework, care work, and employment activities. Disparities were
greatest in South Korea, Hungary, Italy, and Spain, while moderate in
other Western European countries and lowest in Finland and Anglo-Saxon countries, such as the U.K., the U.S., and Canada.
For all ten countries, gender gaps in time spent on housework and
care work widened from adolescence to adulthood, with the largest gaps persisting from age 30 to 44, but narrowing after 65. This pattern was strongest for Italy and South Korea, and less pronounced in Canada and
Finland. Disparities in time spent on employment activities were greatest
from the ages to 30 through 64; this pattern was most pronounced in the Netherlands and less prominent in the U.S.
These findings suggest that national context affects the precise ways
in which gender gaps in time use may arise and wane over the entire
life course. These findings, and future research in this area, could
help inform country-specific efforts to close gender gaps in important activities for individuals' health and well-being outcomes.
The authors add: "Our study shows that age and gender intersect strongly
in affecting time-use patterns, but also that the national context
plays an important role in shaping gender-age interactions in time
use allocation."
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========================================================================== Journal Reference:
1. Joan Garci'a Roma'n, Pablo Gracia. Gender differences in time
use across
age groups: A study of ten industrialized countries, 2005-2015. PLOS
ONE, 2022; 17 (3): e0264411 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264411 ==========================================================================
Link to news story:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220309140916.htm
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