2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Reevaluating the mechanism of generating gender inequality in housework: Focusing on the cumulative process of housework skills
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22K20191
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0108:Sociology and related fields
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| Research Institution | Bukkyo University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-08-31 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 家事労働 / ジェンダー / 未婚者 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In Japan, there is large gender inequality in housework. Recent research has proposed the “housework skills hypothesis,” which states that men’s lack of “housework skills” prevents them from participating in housework. This study focused on co-education of home economics as a way to acquire housework skills, and analyzed the Japanese time use survey (Survey on time and leisure activities). Findings show that even if men acquired housework skills through co-education in home economics, their time spent doing housework did not increase． It was also revealed that there is a gender difference in time spent doing housework by unmarried persons, which begins to emerge from the late 20s onwards. These results indicate the need to consider why unmarried women come to do more housework than men.
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| Free Research Field |
社会学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
日本社会の家事労働のジェンダー不平等を緩和することは非常に大きな課題である．量的な家事労働研究はこうした課題に取り組んできたが，「家事スキル仮説」は新たな論点として学術的に注目されている．一方で，人びとがどのように家事をする／しないことによって既婚時の家事労働のジェンダー不平等が生じるのか，実際に家事スキルを身に着けたら家事をするのかは分析されていなかった．本研究は，家事スキルを身に着けるだけでは，男性は家事をするようにはならないことを明らかにした．また，従来の研究では未婚者の家事への注目は非常に低かったが，本研究の知見により既婚者の分担を考える上でも新たな研究領域として重要なことが示された．
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