Gender Roles and Domestic Chores: a Comparison among Parents and Children

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE
Author/s Pietro Demurtas, Adele Menniti, Loredana Cerbara
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/110 Language Italian
Pages 31 P. 84-114 File size 293 KB
DOI 10.3280/SR2016-110006
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In the light of changes occurred in gender roles over the years, it seems useful to investigate whether the new generations adopt more equal gender roles at home and if the parents’ daily organization affects the participation of their children to domestic chores. Using data from the Istat survey on Time Use carried out in 2008-9, the paper examines some hypotheses related to the well-known approaches (gender ideology, modelling, time availability, stress crossover). The results, while showing a limited contribution of the sons in domestic work, highlight the greater accountability of the daughters, thus confirming the family as a context of reproduction of traditional gender roles. At the same time, it was noticed that the father has an important educational role: both male and female children are more involved when their fathers are engaged in the more stereo-typically female tasks. Moreover, children’s sensitivity to the parental stress appears to be mediated by gender: male children increase the time devoted to housework when their fathers are stressed out and so do the females with reference to their mothers

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Pietro Demurtas, Adele Menniti, Loredana Cerbara, Modelli di genere e attività domestiche: genitori e figli a confronto in "SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE " 110/2016, pp 84-114, DOI: 10.3280/SR2016-110006