Institutions and Gender Time Inequality: A Fuzzy-Set QCA of Swiss Cantons

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Institutions and Gender Time Inequality: A Fuzzy-Set QCA of Swiss Cantons

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This article compares Swiss cantons with respect to gender time inequality, defined as the gender gap in how men and women, on average, divide their time between paid work, housework, and family work. We conduct a fuzzy-set QCA analysis to find macro-level associations between gender time inequality and cantonal institutions. The results suggest (i) that traditionalism is a necessary condition for high gender time inequality, (ii) that several different institutional configurations are linked to high and low gender time inequality, and (iii) that high welfare spending, weak traditionalism, and a large public sector are in all configurations linked to lower gender time inequality.

Keywords

  • gender inequality
  • Swiss cantons
  • gender division of labor
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis
  • working time

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Editors:

Brigitte Liebig, René Levy, Birgit Sauer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Publisher:

Swiss Sociological Association and Seismo Press, Swiss Journal of Sociology, Vol. 40, Issue 2, July 2014, «Gender Equality Policies in Switzerland», pp. 259-278

Languages:

English

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PDF

City:

Zurich

Year:

2014

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Work – carrer – professions
Inequalities
Family – parenthood – kinship

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Sociology

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