Gender roles and the division of unpaid work in Spanish households

Feminist Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 137-184

  Sevilla Sanz, Almudena ^a   Gimenez Nadal, Jose Ignacio ^b   Fernández, Cristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c BANCO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Childcare; Doing gender hypothesis; Household bargaining; Household production; Household specialization; Social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251563427     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2010.531197     Document Type: Article

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