Changes in gender role attitudes following couples' residential relocations
Vidal, Sergi (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)
Lersch, Philipp M. (University of Cologne)

Date:	2019
Description:	44 pàg.
Abstract:	BACKGROUND Residential relocations of couple households are associated with increases in objective gender inequality within families in paid and unpaid work. Little is known about how couples' relocations affect subjective outcomes such as attitudes. OBJECTIVE We examine whether gender role attitudes change when families move residentially in Britain, empirically addressing potential explanations. We also assess heterogeneity in outcomes by relocation distance and relocation motive. METHOD We use linear fixed-effects regression on a representative sample of 6,415 partnered women and 6,220 partnered men from the British Household Panel Survey (1991- 2007). RESULTS Our results show that, on average, an individual's gender role attitudes were not significantly altered following a couple's relocation. As an exception, we find that when couples exclusively relocated for the female partner's job, men's gender role attitudes became more egalitarian post-relocation. Preliminary evidence also suggests that women'sgender role attitudes are potentially affected by their exposure to residential contexts. CONTRIBUTION Despite widespread evidence regarding increases in objective gender inequality following couple relocations in Britain, our findings suggest that this does not permeate into subjective outcomes such as attitudes. Beyond expanding the knowledge on subjective sources of gender inequality that follow couples' relocations, our results also contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of change in gender role attitudes over the life course.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad RYC-2015-18254
Note:	Altres ajuts: German Research Foundation-DFG (Grant number: VI711/1-1)
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Attitudes ; Fixed effects ; Gender roles ; Life course ; Residential mobility ; United Kingdom ; SDG 5 - Gender Equality
Published in:	Demographic research, Vol. 40, Num. 39 (2019) , p. 1111-1152, ISSN 1435-9871

DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.39

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