Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192739 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 757
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
The presence of children still tends to reinforce a traditional division of labour in couples in many countries. This paper explores possible changes in the relationship between parenthood and the division of labour in Norway from 1980 to 2010 - a period with reduced gender differences in time spent on paid and unpaid work and the implementation of several work-family policy reforms. Parenthood intensified a traditional division of labour less in 2010 than in 1980, but there was no linear time trend. In 1980, parents with children in all age groups had a more traditional division of labour than those with no resident children. In 2010, this was the case only for parents with very young children (0-1 years), and even for this group, the difference compared to people without resident children was more modest than previously. As for household work, the presence of children in most age groups still strengthened a traditional division of labour in 2010, although less so than before.
Subjects: 
Gender equality
Paid and unpaid work
Time use
Work-family balance
JEL: 
D13
J18
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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