Ophir Ariane
Centre for Demographic Studies (CED), Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics, Carrer de Ca n'Altayó, Edifici E2, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain.
J Marriage Fam. 2022 Apr;84(2):636-654. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12816. Epub 2021 Dec 13.
Drawing on life course and gender theories, this study tests competing hypotheses about the effect of repartnering on women's and men's levels and shares of housework.
Amidst increasing cohabitation rates and union instability, women and men are likely to form and dissolve multiple marital and non-marital unions with different partners over the life course. However, most of our knowledge about the role of past relationships are based on cross-sectional studies comparing first- and higher-order union. This study investigates whether people change their housework arrangements upon repartnering and whether women and men experience similar patterns of change in heterosexual relationships.
The analysis draws on 40 years of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a sample of 1,897 women and men who were observed in two sequential heterosexual unions. The author used fixed-effects models to estimate change in housework behavior upon repartnering.
Overall, the results show stability in housework behavior upon repartnering once controlling for other life course changes that concur with repartnering. Women continued doing the majority of housework upon repartnering.
The results suggest that forming a new heterosexual union evokes gender scripts which overall maintains the gendered housework behavior. Although housework is dynamic over the life course, the gender dynamics that shape housework is stable amid union instability.
借鉴生命历程和性别理论，本研究检验了关于再婚对男性和女性家务劳动水平及分担比例影响的相互竞争的假设。
在同居率上升和婚姻关系不稳定的情况下，男性和女性在其生命历程中可能会与不同伴侣组建并解除多个婚姻和非婚姻关系。然而，我们对过去关系作用的了解大多基于比较初婚和再婚的横断面研究。本研究调查人们在再婚时是否会改变家务安排，以及在异性恋关系中男性和女性是否经历相似的变化模式。
分析采用了收入动态面板研究40年的纵向数据，样本包括1897名在两个连续异性恋关系中被观察的男性和女性。作者使用固定效应模型来估计再婚时家务行为的变化。
总体而言，结果显示，一旦控制了与再婚同时发生的其他生命历程变化，再婚时家务行为具有稳定性。女性在再婚时仍承担大部分家务。
结果表明，组建新的异性恋关系会引发性别脚本，总体上维持了家务劳动的性别化行为。尽管家务劳动在生命历程中是动态变化的，但在婚姻关系不稳定的情况下，塑造家务劳动的性别动态是稳定的。
