La división del trabajo doméstico en las parejas Españolas un análisis del uso del tiempo

Abstract

This article compares the gendered allocation of household labour between married and cohabiting couples in Spain, contrasting the relative resources hypothesis and the doing gender approach, and considering that the type of partnership influences the equality of the housework division. In order to examine to what extent there is equality, we consider each partners' contribution to the total housework time, but also who does what: some tasks are more constraining than others and we investigate if there are gender and partnership differences specific to those tasks. We analyse the Spanish Time Use Survey (2003), using OLS linear regression models. Our results show that cohabiting couples are more egalitarian, and that homosexual couples have a distinctive division of labour.