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Title: Unpaid Housework and Childcare Time at the Intersection of Gender and Sexuality

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: lmost two decades after the first U.S. state legalized same-sex marriage, our understanding of how partnered sexual minorities divide unpaid household labor is still very limited. Informed by a gender-as-relational perspective, I provide one of the first nationally representative evidence on household time use patterns at the intersection of gender and sexuality. Using mainly the American Time Use Survey data 2003-2019, including critical years after nationwide Marriage Equality in 2015, I answer two research questions: 1) How does housework and childcare time compare across four groups (men and women partnered with same-sex and different-sex partners)? 2) To what extent do potential mechanisms (resource autonomy, power bargaining, time availability, and gender performance) help to explain the group differentials and do these mechanisms differentially apply to each group? Preliminary findings from descriptive, regression, and decomposition analyses show substantial group differentials across time use outcomes as well as differential importance of each mechanism in explaining these group disparities.

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Authors: Song, Haoming

Conference Name: PAA 2022

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Gender, Work, Family, and Time

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