Time Use of Chinese Family Members

A Balance between Salary Market and Household Service

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.272How to use a DOI?

Keywords

China; Time Use; Household Service; OLS regression

Abstract

With the rapid development of the society, there appear many new economy phenomena in China. The economic value of household work has fascinated lots of experts’ eyes. Household work is widely accepted as an unpaid work. And because women largely take the responsibility of it, their rights and economic value are always ignored. Household work is a very important part of our economic life and it also influences the development and improvement of economy. This paper uses the data of 2008 Time Use Survey of China, and 2010 survey on the status of Chinese women. And it applies OLS regression and descriptive statistics to compare the gender difference on the division of labor. The comparisons from several aspects explain how gender effects on the division of labor and leads to inequality. It is found that there are obvious gender differences on household work time. The number of children makes remarkable influence on the time of household work. So do income level, education level, age, work distance and etc. The people of low salary and low education level are mostly influenced by the traditional thought that let women do most housework while men take the responsibility of income. And the gender difference of household work of high education level and income is relatively small. Women are largely influenced by the marital status and men mostly compromise for their formal works.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiayang Wang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/29
TI  - Time Use of Chinese Family Members
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1633
EP  - 1637
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.272
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.272
ID  - Wang2022
ER  -