Factors Influencing Domestic Work Participation among Urban Working Couples in China: Findings from the Third National Survey on the Status of Chinese Women
ZHOU, Lü-jun
Department of Sociology at Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract：This paper adopts the ordinary least squares regression analysis to examine the findings of the third national survey on the status of Chinese women in order to identify the factors that influence domestic work participation among urban working couples, paying special attention to the differences within this population of couples between men who do more and women who do less domestic work. The study uses quantile regression to divide women and men by the amount of time devoted to domestic work so as to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the functions of the influencing factors. This model suggests that the same factor functions differently depending on the amount of time devoted to domestic work by women or men, indicating differences in the size of parameters and statistical significance. For urban working couples, the current notion of division of domestic work explains well only at the larger values, while other explanations are needed at smaller values.
周旅军. 中国城镇在业夫妻家务劳动参与的影响因素分析*——来自第三期中国妇女社会地位调查的发现[J]. 妇女研究论丛, 2013, 0(5): 90-101.
ZHOU, Lü-jun. Factors Influencing Domestic Work Participation among Urban Working Couples in China: Findings from the Third National Survey on the Status of Chinese Women. , 2013, 0(5): 90-101.
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