Project description
Understanding the gender revolution's impact on social inequalities in work and family lives
The gender revolution framework predicts a convergence of gender responsibilities in both work and home domains, yet its progress appears to have stalled due to conflicting factors. Existing theories need to predict how these factors shape work-family patterns for individuals with varying socio-economic resources across different countries and over time. In this context, the ERC-funded WeEqualize project will analyse the impact of the gender revolution on social inequalities in work-family strategies among different-sex couples across 24 countries from the 1960s to the present day. The project will identify various work-family strategies, assess their prevalence based on education level and country, evaluate contextual factors influencing them and project future trends. Additionally, it will gather new survey-based experimental data to understand the role of gender beliefs and constraints within the labour market.
Objective
The gender revolution framework predicts a seemingly linear progression leading to a dramatic convergence in men’s and women’s roles in paid work and at home. Yet gender convergence appears stalled by conflicting structural and cultural factors across industrialized countries. Existing theoretical perspectives fail to simultaneously predict how the gender revolution shapes couple-level work-family patterns across countries and time for those with lower, middle, and higher socio-economic resources.
WeEqualize will address the intertwined implications of the gender revolution—including changing gender beliefs, rising labor market insecurity, and the increasing retreat from partnerships—in shaping social inequalities in work-family strategies among different-sex couples across 24 countries from the 1960s to nowadays.
WeEqualize will provide the first comprehensive characterization and quantification of social inequalities in work-family strategies across industrialized countries and over the long run. It aims to: identify a couple-level typology of work-family strategies; examine the prevalence of these strategies by education and across countries; evaluate the role of contextual factors in shaping work-family strategies; assess how historical and contemporary estimates of work-family strategies are shaped by changing demographic trends, and project future trends in work-family strategies for the coming decades; as well as collect and leverage new survey-based experimental data across different contexts to disentangle the role of gender beliefs from labor market constraints in shaping what type of work-family strategies couples choose and why.
By combining innovative computational methods with multiple nationally representative studies, as well as collecting new survey-experimental data, WeEqualize will challenge and reframe our theoretical understanding of how gender equality progresses within and across families now and in the future.
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