Multigenerational Family Living by Edgar Liu Hazel Easthope

Author:Edgar Liu, Hazel Easthope [Edgar Liu, Hazel Easthope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367595777
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

Results

Descriptive findings

A sample description is presented in Table 6.1. A higher proportion of co-resident young people are male than female, and most who co-reside are teenagers, rather than age 20–24 or 25–34. Over half of the co-resident young people are studying, 36 per cent are working, and 7.9 per cent are not in employment or education/training (NEET). The proportion of co-resident young people who are NEET is larger in older age groups, supporting research which suggests it is a factor in co-residence beyond the more normative teenage years (Settersten and Ray 2010).

The descriptive findings also show rates of participation in domestic work and the mean number of minutes per day young men, young women, mothers and fathers spend on each domestic activity. Overall, it illustrates that mothers’ participation in domestic work is highest; 97.7 per cent of mothers responding to the survey did at least some domestic work on the diary day, compared with 85.3 per cent of fathers, 68.9 per cent of young women and 51.9 per cent of young men. Mothers also spent more time in domestic work on average: 219 minutes per day, compared with 121 minutes per day for fathers, 46 minutes per day for young women, and 36 minutes per day for young men. This result indicates that there are both gender and generational differences in domestic labor, such that the older generation (parents) and women are more likely to carry out domestic work and spend longer on it than the younger generation and men. There are similar patterns across the specific domestic activities we examined. However, it is worth noting that fathers and young women have similar rates of participation in laundry and cleaning activities (although the amount is greater for fathers). The smallest gender and generation differences are for grocery shopping, with similar rates of participation across the board, and for non-routine domestic activities. Although female participation in non-routine activities is slightly higher than for males in both generations, men average longer in these activities than women, with a more substantial gender difference in the older generation. This finding is consistent with previous research that suggests outdoor work and maintenance are more likely to be done by men, in part because these tasks are more time-flexible and sporadic than routine domestic activities (Craig and Baxter 2016).

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