Gender Inequality in Europe and the Life Satisfaction of Working and Non-working Women
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Tarih
2017
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Springer
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Empirical analysis of data drawn from the European Social Survey reveals that-after individual characteristics are controlled for-women engaging in market work and housework have similar life satisfaction levels. Complementing the micro-level data from the survey with country-level variables, namely GDP per capita and gender inequality (measured by the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index, GGGI), we estimate a multilevel regression model to shed light on the contextual factors of the life satisfaction of women in Europe. We find that working women's well-being relative to housewives is greater in countries where the GGGI indicates a smaller gender gap, i.e. where women are in a better position in terms of equality with men in the public domains. We interpret this finding to mean that the so-called 'paradox of declining female happiness' is in part due to persistent gender roles which appear to have a larger impact on the well-being of working women.
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Gender İnequality, Life Satisfaction, European Social Survey, Global Gender Gap Index, Multilevel Regression, Household Labor, Paid Work, Time, Happiness, Housework, Health, Preferences, Division, Behavior, Religion
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Journal of Happiness Studies
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Q1
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Q1
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18
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