The gender division of housework after the first child: a comparison among Bulgaria, France and the Netherlands

In our study, we adopt a comparative-longitudinal perspective onthe gender division of housework before and after the birth of thefirst child, exploiting thefirst two waves of the Gender andGeneration Survey and comparing three countries belonging todifferent gender and welfare regimes (i.e. Bulgaria, France and theNetherlands). Wefind that childrearing everywhere triggers a re-traditionalisation, generating a more inegalitarian gender divisionof housework, yet with interesting differences across countries.Fixed-effect regression analyses of the pooled data show thatchanges when becoming paren... Mehr ...