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Do fathers work fewer paid hours when their female partner is the main or an equal earner?

Kanji, Shireen. (2013) Do fathers work fewer paid hours when their female partner is the main or an equal earner? Work, Employment and Society, 27 (2). pp. 326-342.

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Abstract

Mothers are increasingly likely to be the main or equal earners in heterosexual couples with children. This study assesses the impact of the mother being the main or an equal earner on her partner's hours of work. The performance of normative gender roles predicts that fathers increase their hours; specialisation theories predict they decrease their hours; and another possibility is that fathers work fewer hours because they have a relatively weak labour market position. We test these alternative propositions using panel data on co-resident parents from the Millennium Cohort Survey (N≈32,000). Results show that fathers with a female partner who is the main earner work considerably fewer hours than other fathers; this also holds for equal- earner fathers to a lesser extent. In part, fathers work fewer hours because their partner is the main or an equal earner, but they are also less likely to work in occupations entailing long hours.
Faculties and Departments:04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften > Fachbereich Soziologie > Sozialforschung und Methodologie (Bergman)
UniBasel Contributors:Kanji, Shireen
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Sage Publications
ISSN:0950-0170
e-ISSN:1469-8722
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Deposited On:19 Jun 2020 12:21

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