• Gender equality in the family and childbearing 

      Dommermuth, Lars; Hohmann-Marriott, Bryndl; Lappegård, Trude (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-06-15)
      Gender equality and equity in the division of household labor may be associated with couples’ transitions to first, second, and third births. Our comprehensive analysis includes the division of housework and child care as ...
    • Housewives in a dual-earner society. Who is a housewife in contemporary Norway? 

      Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit (Discussion papers;No. 659, Working paper, 2011)
      The number of housewives has declined significantly in most Western countries, but there is now a renewed interest in the homemaker role in the media and public discourse. Utilising representative survey data from 2007 ...
    • Parenthood and Couples’ Relative Earnings in Norway 

      Bergsvik, Janna; Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      With the advance of the gender revolution, income dynamics in couples are changing. Nonetheless, in most Western societies, parenthood still promotes specialized gender roles. Utilizing Norwegian register data on all married ...
    • A typology of work-family arrangements among dual-earner couples in Norway 

      Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Lappegård, Trude (Discussion Papers;636, Working paper, 2010)
      An important aim of Norwegian work-family policies is to promote a dual-earner, equal-sharing family model, but we do not really know how common this family type is. By means of a multinomial latent-class model we develop ...
    • Untraditional couples in a neo-traditional setting : which women perform as much paid work as their partner? 

      Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit (Discussion Papers;607, Working paper, 2010)
      An equal division of paid and unpaid work is a central political ambition in Norway. Yet, couples’ division of paid work has been less studied than their division of unpaid work. This paper shows that women seldom work ...
    • Working hours in dual-earner couples: Does one partner work less when the other works more? 

      Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit; Seierstad, Ane (Discussion Papers;670, Working paper, 2011)
      Abstract: In spite of increased labour market participation in recent decades, women in Norway still have high part-time rates and seldom work more than their partners. Given that an aging population implies a projected ...