Gender Gaps in Subjective Wellbeing : Research report
| Year of publication: |
2015
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|---|---|
| Authors: | Senik, Claudia |
| Institutions: | Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Justiz und Verbraucher (contributor) ; Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (contributor) ; Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale (contributor) ; enege (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
Amt für amtliche Veröffentlichungen |
| Subject: | Arbeitsbedingungen | working conditions | EU | Frau | woman | Gleichheit | equality | Lebensbedingungen | living conditions | Mann | man | soziale Lage | social situation | Sozialwissenschaft | social science | Wohlbefinden | well-being |
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Part I. Gender gaps in subjective wellbeing: the broad picture
- I.1. Concepts
- I.1.1. Global cognitive evaluations
- I.1.2. Mental health scores
- I.1.3. Short-run emotional affects
- I.2. General Findings about the Gender Gap
- I.2.1. Women are happier and more satisfied with their life
- I.2.2. But women are more exposed to depression than men
- I.2.3. The happiness gap changes over the life cycle
- I.2.4. A time trend?
- I.2.5. Cross-country differences
- Part II. Tentative explanations for the gender gap in subjective wellbeing
- II.1. Education, wage, job characteristics, personality traits: unsuccessful candidates
- II.1.1. Education
- II.1.2. Job characteristics
- II.1.3. Personality traits<br<II.2. The paid work-housework nexus
- II.2.1. Facts about the division of tasks within the household
- II.2.2. A preference for diversity?
- II.2.3. Time stress: multi-tasking, routine tasks, stress and overload
- II.2.4. “Doing gender”
- II.2.5. The impact of institutions on gender equality (“Institutions trump gender”)
- II.3. Disagreement and violence in the household
- II.4. The role of expectations
- II.4.1. Expectations and job satisfaction
- II.4.2. Expectations and household work
- II.5. Macro-Foundations and Institutions
- II.5.1. Indicators of gender equality
- II.5.2. Freedom and fundamental rights
- II.5.3. The type of social protection system
- Conclusions
- 1. Wrapping up the findings
- 1. Intra-household differentiation
- 2. The role of expectations
- 2. Policy conclusions
- References
- APPENDIX A Description of the Surveys
- APPENDIX B Descriptive Statistics
- APPENDIX C Results
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