abstract: 'This study examines the importance of prenatal characteristics of men

  and women in couples for how they change their time spent on housework

  and paid work after the transition to parenthood. We focus on both

  partners'' earnings and gender role attitudes as explanatory factors.

  Previous research explored the importance of women''s relative income and

  both partners'' gender role attitudes for the extent to which the

  division of labour becomes more traditional among new parents. We extend

  this literature by including women''s absolute earnings, which may be

  crucial given the very high costs of formal childcare in Britain. The

  statistical analysis of 310 couples is based on 16 waves of the British

  Household Panel Survey (1992-2007) and applies OLS models with Heckman

  selection correction. The findings suggest that higher absolute wages

  and more egalitarian attitudes of women before motherhood reduce the

  shift towards a more traditional division of labour after couples have

  their first child. In the British context, higher relative wages of

  women compared to their partners are not significant.'
affiliation: 'Schober, PS (Corresponding Author), Univ Cambridge, Dept Sociol, Free
  Sch Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, England.

  Univ Cambridge, Dept Sociol, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, England.'
author: Schober, Pia S.
author-email: pss36@cam.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Schober
  given: Pia S.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/esr/jcr041
eissn: 1468-2672
files: []
issn: 0266-7215
journal: EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
keywords-plus: 'WOMENS EARNINGS; CHILD-CARE; HOUSEWORK; EMPLOYMENT; DIVISION;

  TRANSITIONS; HUSBANDS; MARRIAGE; POLICIES; MOTHERS'
language: English
month: FEB
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '43'
orcid-numbers: Schober, Pia/0000-0003-1953-1197
pages: 74-85
papis_id: 23bbed101f0cb6ff8fae6390895c7e6b
ref: Schober2013parenthoodeffect
times-cited: '98'
title: 'The Parenthood Effect on Gender Inequality: Explaining the Change in Paid
  and Domestic Work When British Couples Become Parents'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000314712000006
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '75'
volume: '29'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2013'