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Comparing household employment, gender contracts and the crisis in Europe
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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:48 authored by Nuria Sanchez-Mira, Jacqueline O'ReillyJacqueline O'ReillyThe traditional male breadwinner household has been in terminal decline, but has the economic crisis reversed this? Theoretical approaches concerned with the heterogeneity of ‘multi-equilibrium models’ of household organisation of work predict a period of normative change increasing gender equality, while ‘balkanised gender contract’ approaches emphasise the persistence of labor market segmentation. Using EU-SILC data (2007-12), we develop a typology to compare household employment patterns within and between countries before and after the Great Recession. Where the crisis was most severe there has been a retrenchment of dual earner households, and a growth of male breadwinners caused by female unemployment. While dual earner households are better placed to counter economic adversity this is often a result of economic necessity rather than increased gender equality.
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29th Annual Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics (SASE) ConferenceEvent location
Lyon, FranceEvent type
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29 Jun - 01 Jul 2017Department affiliated with
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Conference theme: What's next? disruptive/collaborative economy or business as usual?Full text available
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