abstract: 'BACKGROUND

  Residential relocations of couple households are associated with

  increases in objective gender inequality within families in paid and

  unpaid work. Little is known about how couples'' relocations affect

  subjective outcomes such as attitudes.

  OBJECTIVE

  We examine whether gender role attitudes change when families move

  residentially in Britain, empirically addressing potential explanations.

  We also assess heterogeneity in outcomes by relocation distance and

  relocation motive.

  METHOD

  We use linear fixed-effects regression on a representative sample of

  6,415 partnered women and 6,220 partnered men from the British Household

  Panel Survey (1991-2007).

  RESULTS

  Our results show that, on average, an individual''s gender role attitudes

  were not significantly altered following a couple''s relocation. As an

  exception, we find that when couples exclusively relocated for the

  female partner''s job, men''s gender role attitudes became more

  egalitarian post-relocation. Preliminary evidence also suggests that

  women''s gender role attitudes are potentially affected by their exposure

  to residential contexts.

  CONTRIBUTION

  Despite widespread evidence regarding increases in objective gender

  inequality following couple relocations in Britain, our findings suggest

  that this does not permeate into subjective outcomes such as attitudes.

  Beyond expanding the knowledge on subjective sources of gender

  inequality that follow couples'' relocations, our results also contribute

  to a better understanding of the dynamics of change in gender role

  attitudes over the life course.'
affiliation: 'Vidal, S (Corresponding Author), CED, Barcelona, Spain.

  Vidal, Sergi, CED, Barcelona, Spain.

  Lersch, Philipp M., Univ Cologne, Inst Sociol \& Social Psychol, Cologne, Germany.'
author: Vidal, Sergi and Lersch, Philipp M.
author-email: svidal@ced.uab.es
author_list:
- family: Vidal
  given: Sergi
- family: Lersch
  given: Philipp M.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.39
files: []
issn: 1435-9871
journal: DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
keywords-plus: 'DISTANCE FAMILY MIGRATION; SUBSEQUENT EMPLOYMENT; INTERNAL MIGRATION;

  LABOR; IDEOLOGY; HOMEOWNERSHIP; EARNINGS; BRITAIN; WORK; PARTICIPATION'
language: English
month: APR 30
number-of-cited-references: '75'
orcid-numbers: Vidal, Sergi/0000-0003-4011-2077
pages: 1111-1152
papis_id: b64bb7e84699ed52e596a57f5ba12bc9
ref: Vidal2019changesgender
times-cited: '4'
title: Changes in gender role attitudes following couples' residential relocations
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000469845400001
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '40'
web-of-science-categories: Demography
year: '2019'