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- Many households use paid services to outsource domestic chores like cleaning and cooking, but the impact on gender and class inequalities in housework is not well understood.
- A study of 3,540 dual-earner households in Spain reveals that women who hire help do about 30 minutes less housework daily, but their share compared to their partners remains the same.
- The research suggests that without paid domestic work, the gap in housework among Spanish women with different social classes could decrease by 20%.
Article Abstract
Many households regularly outsource unpaid domestic labor by purchasing services and products to help with cleaning, cooking, ironing, and other chores. Despite the prevalence of this practice, scholars know little about how it affects inequalities in the time spent on housework. Drawing on data on 3540 dual-earner households in Spain, this article examines the relationship between hiring domestic work and both the within-household gender gap in housework and the class gap in housework among women. I find that women who hire do about 30min less housework per day than non-hiring women, but in relation to their partners these women continue to do the same share of housework. Using counterfactual analysis, I find that the absence of paid domestic work is associated with a 20% decline in the class gap in housework among Spanish women.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.01.008 | DOI Listing |
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