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Marriage and Housework : Analyzing the Effects of Education Using the 2011 and 2016 Japanese Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities

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  • Kolpashnikova, Kamila
  • Kan, Man Yee
  • Shirakawa, Kiyomi

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We analyze cross-sectional time-use diaries from the 2011 and 2016 Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities (Shakai Seikatsu Kihon Chosa) to investigate the association between educational level and housework participation in contexts where educational attainment among women does not readily translate into workforce stability. We test whether higher levels of educational attainment are associated with the decrease in housework participation as the previous research in countries of the global north suggests. Our findings reveal that education is not likely to reduce housework participation among Japanese women. Married Japanese women with children are unlikely to reduce their time spent on housework with the increase of their educational level and married Japanese women without children are more likely to increase their housework participation proportionately to the level of their education. The results suggest that in Japan, the supply-side solutions to gender inequality (such as increasing educational opportunities for women) do not remedy the situation. The country needs to address structural and institutional barriers to gender equality.

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  • Kolpashnikova, Kamila & Kan, Man Yee & Shirakawa, Kiyomi, 2019. "Marriage and Housework : Analyzing the Effects of Education Using the 2011 and 2016 Japanese Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities," Discussion Paper Series 696, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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    1. Kolpashnikova, Kamila & Chiba, Ryota & Shirakawa, Kiyomi, 2019. "Socioeconomic Status and Housework: Cultural Differences in Participation in Routine Housework in Japan, Canada, and the US," OSF Preprints 9tfce, Center for Open Science.
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    4. Kamila Kolpashnikova & Man-Yee Kan, 2020. "Hebdomadal Patterns of Compensatory Behaviour: Weekday and Weekend Housework Participation in Canada, 1986–2010," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 34(2), pages 174-192, April.

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    Keywords

    gender; housework; Japanese households; routine housework;
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    JEL classification:

    • J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - General
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure

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