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European Sociological Review Advance Access published online on July 29, 2009
European Sociological Review, doi:10.1093/esr/jcp038
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Conflict and Housework: Does Country Context Matter?

Leah Ruppanner

Correspondence: Leah Ruppanner, University of California, Irvine Social Science Plaza A, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. Email: lruppann{at}uci.edu

In this article, I analyse housework conflict cross-nationally using a unique multi-level data set that pairs the 2004 European Social Survey data for respondents in 25 nations with societal measures of gender equality. At the individual-level, I test two theoretical approaches to subjective housework conflict: the distributive justice and relative resources perspectives. The results support both of these theories for men and women. At the country-level, I test the relationship between housework conflict and two country-level measures: societal gender equality and rates of full-time female labor force participation. For men and women in countries with high rates of full-time female labour force participation, the relationship between housework conflict and gender equality is negative. For men and women in countries with limited access to the labour force, the relationship between housework conflict and gender equality is positive. These results suggest a dynamic relationship between country context and individual negotiations over housework.

Manuscript received: October 1, 2008.


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