המשאבים שלה או המשאבים שלו? חלוקת העבודה הביתית במשפחות פלסטיניות בישראל

This article focuses on the way Palestinian families in Israel manage their household’s division of labour and childcare between spouses, and the way women’s and men’s education and employment challenge the gendered division of labour. While most studies have been carried out in economically developed societies, less is known about the phenomenon in the context of developing societies,in which significant changes in education have occurred while patriarchal norms regarding family and gender roles are maintained. Using data from the Israeli Social Survey (2009 and 2019), this paper uses logistic regression to examine the effects of the relative education of the spouses, employment status, wages, and attitudes of men and women on the gendered division of labour and childcare. Moreover, this research analyses the way these relationships changed from 2009to 2019. The main results show that there are still noticeable gender differences in housework performance and that change over time is slow. However, the results also demonstrate that in some cases, individual resources of women and men such as educational levels, women’s employment status, and egalitarian gender role attitudes of men (to a greater extent than those of women) – might allow for a more equal division of labour within households.