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Care in Context: Men's Unpaid Work in 20 Countries, 1965–2003
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By situating men within the country and time period in which they live, social scientists are better able to understand men's housework and child care behaviors as mentioned in this paper, and propose that national c...Abstract:
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: A Treatise on the Family by G. S. Becker as discussed by the authors is one of the most famous and influential economists of the second half of the 20th century, a fervent contributor to and expounder of the University of Chicago free-market philosophy, and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics.
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Work and Family Research in the First Decade of the 21st Century.
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Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives
TL;DR: Evidence shows that some social policies can be effective in countering postponement and a growing body of literature shows that female employment and childrearing can be combined when the reduction in work-family conflict is facilitated by policy intervention.
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Housework: Who Did, Does or Will Do It, and How Much Does It Matter?
TL;DR: It is shown that the gender division of labor in house work became more equal over this period, in part because men increased their time in housework but more importantly because women dramatically decreased the time they spent in these activities.
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Families that work: Policies for reconciling parenthood and employment
TL;DR: Gornick and Meyers as discussed by the authors argue that a dual-earner-dual-carer society can be achieved through three key changes: shifting several hours per week of men's time from paid work to care for children, and a smaller number of women's hours from home to paid work.
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A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
TL;DR: Cognitive dissonance theory links actions and attitudes as discussed by the authors, which holds that dissonance is experienced whenever one cognition that a person holds follows from the opposite of at least one other cognition that the person holds.
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: The Enlarged Edition as mentioned in this paper provides an overview of the evolution of the family and the state Bibliography Index. But it does not discuss the relationship between fertility and the division of labor in families.
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: A Treatise on the Family by G. S. Becker as discussed by the authors is one of the most famous and influential economists of the second half of the 20th century, a fervent contributor to and expounder of the University of Chicago free-market philosophy, and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics.
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Social foundations of postindustrial economies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of welfare regimes for a post-industrial era, including Wefare Regimes for a Post-Industrial Era Bibliography and the Structural Bases of Postindustrial Employment.