2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Effect of wives' career about husbands' housework and marital power
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19K02362
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 08030:Family and consumer sciences, and culture and living-related
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| Research Institution | Otsuma Women's University (2021-2022)
Tokyo Woman's Christian University (2019-2020) |
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Principal Investigator |
MARI NAKAGAWA 大妻女子大学, 家政学部, 准教授 (00649634)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | 共働き夫婦 / 妻のキャリア形成 / 性別役割分業 / 夫の家事参加 / 勢力関係 / 家計の意思決定 / 家計分担 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examines how wives’ relative resources and other factors affect husbands’ participation in housework and couples’ decision-making regarding family finances among double-income couples whose youngest child is middle school age or older. A secondary data analysis and a questionnaire survey through the internet were conducted in 2019-2023. Structural equation modeling yielded three major results. The results show that, firstly, wives’ regular employment, longer service years, lower traditional gender ideologies and lower husbands income increase wives’ relative resources. Furthermore, wives’ relative resources increase husbands’ division of housework. Secondly, however dual-earner wives earn much money, they maintain gender role as traditional wives by controlling a low share of family finances. Third, this study also examined whether wives’ income as wives’ power and wives’ gender ideology effect marital decision-making about family finances and marital satisfaction.
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| Free Research Field |
家族社会学、家族関係学、ジェンダー研究
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
学術的意義は、家族社会学・家族関係学領域で、子育て期後の共働き夫婦における性別役割分業と勢力関係について、量的研究による知見の蓄積をした点である。新たな知見として、末子中学生以上の共働き妻の就業により得られた勢力は相対的資源を多くするが、家計分担は勢力を得ても性別役割規範意識によって抑えられること、家計の意思決定との関連性を明らかにした。
社会的意義は、共働き時代における夫のワーク・ライフ・バランス、家庭役割のジェンダー平等が期待される中、共働き夫婦の勢力関係に新たな知見を与えた点である。具体的には妻の就業継続が夫婦の勢力関係に肯定的な側面をもたらすことを示唆した。
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