Blar i Discussion Papers på emneord "Gender equality"
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Housewives in a dual-earner society. Who is a housewife in contemporary Norway?
(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 ... -
A typology of work-family arrangements among dual-earner couples in Norway
(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?
(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?
(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 ...