Declining fertility in Taiwan: the deterring impact of housework imbalance

IF 1.5 4区社会学 Q2 DEMOGRAPHY

Asian Population Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI:10.1080/17441730.2022.2035555

J. Thomas, Francisco Rowe, Eric S. Lin

引用次数: 3

Abstract

ABSTRACT Fertility in Taiwan has been persistently low since 2003. Theorists have attributed this to gender inequity in domestic labour, yet this relationship has not been statistically tested. We assess the way in which the division of housework influences the probability of having an additional child. We assess this relationship for a sample of childbearing-aged married couples, as well as for education- and employment-specific subgroups. We find evidence of impacts for university-educated and working-mother couples, and when survey respondents are wives rather than husbands. The probability of a university-educated and working-mother couple with an equal division of housework having a child within five years is 0.73, whereas the probability of a couple with the mean division of housework having a child is 0.39. This finding is significant at the 1 per cent level.

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台湾生育率下降：家务劳动失衡的威慑作用

摘要自2003年以来，台湾的生育率一直很低。理论家们将此归因于家务劳动中的性别不平等，但这种关系尚未经过统计检验。我们评估了家务分工对多生一个孩子的可能性的影响。我们对育龄已婚夫妇样本以及教育和就业特定亚组的这种关系进行了评估。我们发现，当调查对象是妻子而不是丈夫时，有证据表明这对受过大学教育的在职母亲夫妇产生了影响。一对受过大学教育、从事同等家务分工的母亲夫妇在五年内生孩子的概率为0.73，而一对平均家务分工的夫妇生孩子的几率为0.39。这一发现在1%的水平上意义重大。

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Asian Population Studies DEMOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

3.30

自引率

14.30%

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期刊介绍： The first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia, Asian Population Studies publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology.