Overview
- Provides an in-depth study of the allocation of time spend on unpaid domestic work in a gender-unequal context: Italy
- Studies a life-course approach focusing on the three pillars of unpaid domestic work: housework, childcare and elderly care
- Addresses aspects often neglected in the current literature such as the allocation of time to domestic work among children and the elderly
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Domestic Work across the Life Course
- Childcare and Elderly Care
- Gender Equality in Italy
- Time Use
- Gender Differences
- Housework in Italy
- Micro and Macro Determinants of Housework
- Explaining Housework to Children and Young Adults
- Time Use in Italy
- Domestic Work among Children and Youth
- Childless Couple’s Housework time
- Housework and Childcare among Italians
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Giulia Maria Dotti Sani is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento. Her main research areas are the sociology of the family, time use studies, and social stratification. Her methodological skills include time budget analysis, multilevel and panel modeling. She is specialized in the management and analyses of large household longitudinal and cross-sectional datasets (e.g. Multinational Time Use Study, European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, European Social Survey, Italian Household Survey and Time Use Survey). She has published original research in highly ranked international peer-reviewed journals such as the European Sociological Review, the Journal of Marriage and Family, the European Journal of Political Research, Social Science Research and the Journal of Family Issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Time Use in Domestic Settings Throughout the Life Course
Book Subtitle: The Italian Case
Authors: Giulia Maria Dotti Sani
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78720-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78719-0Published: 20 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78720-6Published: 06 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2212-6368
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6376
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 142
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Family