Liu Bochu, Widener Michael J, Smith Lindsey G, Farber Steven, Gesink Dionne, Minaker Leia M, Patterson Zachary, Larsen Kristian, Gilliland Jason
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto-St George, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Time Soc. 2022 Nov;31(4):480-507. doi: 10.1177/0961463X221100696. Epub 2022 May 21.
Understanding how coupled adults arrange food-related labor in relation to their daily time allocation is of great importance because different arrangements may have implications for diet-related health and gender equity. Studies from the time-use perspective argue that daily activities such as work, caregiving, and non-food-related housework can potentially compete for time with foodwork. However, studies in this regard are mostly centered on individual-level analyses. They fail to consider cohabiting partners' time spent on foodwork and non-food-related activities, a factor that could be helpful in explaining how coupled partners decide to allocate time to food activities. Using 108 daily time-use logs from seventeen opposite-gender couples living in Toronto, Canada, this paper examines how male and female partners' time spent on non-food-related activities impact the total amount of time spent on foodwork by coupled adults and the difference in time spent on foodwork between coupled women and men. Results show that both male and female partners took a higher portion of foodwork when their partner worked longer. When men worked for additional time, the couple-level duration of foodwork decreased. Without a significant impact on the gender difference in foodwork duration, women's increased caregiving duration was associated with a reduction of total time spent on foodwork by couples. An increase in caregiving and non-food-related chores by men was associated with an increased difference in duration of foodwork between women and men, which helped secure a constant total amount of foodwork at the couple level. These behavioral variations between men and women demonstrate the gender differences in one's responsiveness to the change of partners' non-food-related tasks. The associations found among non-food-related activities and foodwork are suggestive of a need to account for partners' time allocation when studying the time-use dynamics of foodwork and other daily activities.
了解成年伴侣如何根据日常时间分配来安排与食物相关的劳动非常重要，因为不同的安排可能会对与饮食相关的健康和性别平等产生影响。从时间利用角度进行的研究认为，工作、照料和与食物无关的家务等日常活动可能会与食物工作争夺时间。然而，这方面的研究大多集中在个体层面的分析上。它们没有考虑同居伴侣在食物工作和与食物无关的活动上所花费的时间，而这一因素有助于解释伴侣如何决定分配时间用于食物活动。本文使用来自加拿大多伦多的17对异性伴侣的108份日常时间使用记录，研究了男性和女性伴侣在与食物无关的活动上所花费的时间如何影响成年伴侣在食物工作上花费的总时间，以及伴侣中女性和男性在食物工作上花费时间的差异。结果表明，当伴侣工作时间更长时，男性和女性伴侣承担的食物工作比例都更高。当男性加班时，伴侣层面的食物工作时长会减少。女性照料时长的增加与伴侣在食物工作上花费的总时间减少有关，但对食物工作时长的性别差异没有显著影响。男性照料和与食物无关的家务增加与女性和男性在食物工作时长上的差异增大有关，这有助于在伴侣层面确保食物工作的总时长保持不变。男女之间的这些行为差异表明了在应对伴侣与食物无关任务变化时的性别差异。在与食物无关的活动和食物工作之间发现的关联表明，在研究食物工作和其他日常活动的时间利用动态时，需要考虑伴侣的时间分配情况。
