Albertini Marco, Tosi Marco
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Genus. 2022;78(1):21. doi: 10.1186/s41118-022-00168-4. Epub 2022 Jun 15.
As a consequence of recent socio-demographic trends and labour market transformations the role of grandparental support has become pivotal in individuals' and households' life courses. In Southern European countries the availability of grandparents affects young couples' labour market participation and fertility decisions. In the present paper, it is asked if the potential availability of social support from the older family generation is associated with more or less inequality in the division of unpaid housework in couples with minor children, in Italy. Using data from the 2016 Family and Social Subjects survey it is shown that while there is not a clear relation between intergenerational face-to-face contacts and the symmetry of the division of household labour, adult children and older (grand)parents coresidence is associated with a more gender-equal sharing of housework within couples, arguably because co-residing grandparents take on the execution of a number of household tasks. The observed effect is comparable to that of hiring a paid housekeeper and higher than hiring a babysitter. Thus, despite one may think that three-generation households are characterized by a culture of traditional norms, our findings indicate that they have a more gender-equal division of housework.
由于近期的社会人口趋势和劳动力市场变革，祖父母支持在个人和家庭的人生历程中发挥着关键作用。在南欧国家，祖父母的存在会影响年轻夫妇的劳动力市场参与和生育决策。在本文中，我们探讨了在意大利，有年幼子女的夫妇中，来自老年家庭一代的社会支持的潜在可得性是否与无偿家务分工中或多或少的不平等相关。利用2016年家庭与社会主题调查的数据表明，虽然代际面对面接触与家务分工的对称性之间没有明确关系，但成年子女与年长（外）祖父母同住与夫妻间家务更平等的分担相关，这可以说是因为同住的祖父母承担了一些家务任务。观察到的效果与雇佣一名有薪管家相当，且高于雇佣一名保姆。因此，尽管人们可能认为三代同堂的家庭具有传统规范文化特征，但我们的研究结果表明，它们的家务分工更加性别平等。
