abstract: 'This study employs a gendered relative resource approach to examine

  whether the importance of relative resources varies by couples''

  household income in shaping changes in the gender division of labour

  after first birth. Scholarship has long argued that the gender division

  of labour within different-sex couples is influenced by partners''

  relative resources. However, couples face class-based constraints that

  may alter the relevance of relative resources in shaping changes in

  gender divisions of labour following the transition to parenthood. This

  study compares couples'' paid work and housework before and up to four

  years after first birth, using 28 waves of the British Household Panel

  Survey and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (N = 1,606 couples). I

  find that the effect of relative resources on changes in couple''s paid

  work and housework behaviour after first birth varies substantially by

  household income. Among higher-income couples, women''s paid work and

  housework time changes less among those with high relative earnings and

  more among those with low relative earnings, while men''s time allocation

  varies little after first birth. In contrast, among low-income couples,

  women''s paid work time and share decreases most after first among female

  breadwinners while their male partners'' paid work time increases

  substantially. These findings reflect the greater constraints that

  low-income parents face in reconciling work and family and highlight the

  need for greater attention to class interactions in the process of

  gender specialization in both research and work-family policy.'
affiliation: 'Dunatchik, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Penn, Dept Sociol, 3718 Locust
  Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.

  Dunatchik, Allison, Univ Penn, Dept Sociol, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
  USA.'
author: Dunatchik, Allison
author-email: adunat@sas.upenn.edu
author_list:
- family: Dunatchik
  given: Allison
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/esr/jcac036
earlyaccessdate: OCT 2022
eissn: 1468-2672
files: []
issn: 0266-7215
journal: EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
keywords-plus: 'WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; SEPARATE SPHERES; WIVES EARNINGS; DOMESTIC WORK;

  CHILD-CARE; TIME-USE; INEQUALITY; MOTHERS; FATHERS; PARTICIPATION'
language: English
month: APR 13
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '57'
pages: 229-246
papis_id: 5c9a79e9e80adf7e0a15391d34b2b806
ref: Dunatchik2023parenthoodgender
times-cited: '1'
title: 'Parenthood and the gender division of labour across the income distribution:
  the relative importance of relative earnings'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000870787300001
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '39'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2023'