Riedijk Larisa, Aarntzen Lianne, van Veelen Ruth, Derks Belle
Department of Social, Health, and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Department of Sustainable Productivity and Employability, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2024 Apr;63(2):681-707. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12698. Epub 2023 Nov 20.
Although women's labour force participation has increased, women still lag behind in financial independence and men in spending time on parenting. Insight in individuals' explicit conversations with their partner about how to coordinate daily household, childcare and paid work may help to overcome these persistent inequalities. Using a daily diary design, the present study examined to what extent daily conversations with the partner about household, childcare and paid work can boost a more equal, fair task division and relationship quality among Dutch mothers and fathers in a heterosexual relationship (N = 1235 daily reported conversations nested in 157 participants; 66.2% female). Mixed model results showed that (1) on days when participants conversed more with their partner about household tasks, they reported a more egalitarian task division and higher satisfaction with and fairness of the task division, and higher relationship quality (2) this higher daily satisfaction with and perceived fairness of the task division (but not egalitarianism) were, in turn, associated with higher relationship quality and (3) conversations had limited spill-over effects to the next day, stressing the importance of daily coordination. Together, these findings imply that daily household coordination helps parents to overcome traditional gender roles and align with their desired work/family division.
尽管女性劳动力参与率有所提高，但在经济独立方面女性仍落后于男性，在育儿时间投入上也落后于男性。深入了解个人与伴侣关于如何协调日常家务、育儿和有偿工作的明确对话，可能有助于克服这些长期存在的不平等现象。本研究采用每日日记设计，考察了与伴侣就家务、育儿和有偿工作进行的日常对话在多大程度上能够促进荷兰异性恋关系中的父母之间实现更平等、公平的任务分配以及提升关系质量（N = 1235次每日报告的对话，嵌套于157名参与者中；女性占66.2%）。混合模型结果表明：（1）在参与者与伴侣就家务任务交流更多的日子里，他们报告的任务分配更平等，对任务分配的满意度和公平感更高，关系质量也更高；（2）这种对任务分配更高的每日满意度和感知到的公平感（但不是平等主义）反过来又与更高的关系质量相关；（3）对话对第二天的影响有限，这凸显了日常协调的重要性。这些发现共同表明，日常家务协调有助于父母克服传统性别角色，与他们期望的工作/家庭分工保持一致。
