MUŠKARCI TO NE RADE: RODNO SEGREGIRANA PODJELA RADA U OBITELJI
MEN DON'T DO THAT: GENDER SEGREGATION OF DOMESTIC DIVISION OF LABOUR

Summary/Abstract: Contrary to a long global trend of researching the domestic division of labour between marital partners, for social scientists in Croatia it has been a completely marginal field of study from the mid-seventies up to the end of the century. The reason for this is buried in the roots of social circumstances: in the socialist period in the sphere of public relations the equality of the sexes was proclaimed, but without entering the sphere of private and family relations. In the nine-year postsocialist transitional period the political parties and options supporting "traditional family values" dominated. Furthermore, war circumstances and a deep economic crisis worked in the same direction backtracking towards traditional patterns of family life. Among the empirical research projects of the division of unpaid labour in the family, in foreign as well as domestic professional literature, there have been but few that include gender segregation of labour into "male" and "female".

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