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A Comparative Study on the Relation between Welfare State Policy and the Unpaid Work Time by Gender

Youngmi Kim 1

1동서대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to explore institutional factors as well as individuals’and couples’ characteristics that affect the unpaid work distribution by gender incomparative perspective. This study examined the influence of national context onunpaid work time of married men and women with young children. Analyses use the data from the Multinational Time Use Study(MTUS) for 9 countriesincluding Korea(spanning 1998 to 2009). It conducts a multi-level regression analysisto examine the effects of gender norms, total paid work time, employment rateof married women, enrollment rate in publicly-funded child care, length of maternityand parental leave while controlling for individual attributes of age, education,employment status, weekly working time, number of children. It is interesting thatmen’s unpaid work time increase in the societies with equal gender ideology andnorm, reduced total working time and high employment level of married women. On the contrary, women’s unpaid work time increase in the societies with reducedtotal working time and long parental leave.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.