Relative Participation of Men and Women in Paid and Unpaid Work: An Analysis of Variations by Individual, Family and Community Characteristics

Sometimes there are measures of the responsibility for given tasks, but these are difficult to summarize in terms of the division of unpaid work at the level of the couple. [...] The adoption of a family model depends on several factors including each individual characteristics and values, the couple’s family stage, and the characteristics of the community where the family resides. [...] These estimates are not as inclusive as the daily time use, and they present the problem of using the respondent to estimate the behaviour of their spouse, but they have the advantage of being available for both members of the couple. [...] For example, for the marital status variable, a positive coefficient of the ‘common-law’ category (column 1 of Table 3) indicates that, in comparison to the complementary model, those in common-law are more likely than the married to be in the shared model. [...] 8 For each of the factors under consideration, the complementary roles arrangement is the largest category in each of the categories of these factors (Table 2) except for the labour force status that has double burden as the largest for couples both working full time.