Despite numerous modifications in today's society, the prevailing distribution of domestic work between the genders is still asymmetric. The conventional image of women is associated with motherhood, taking care of the family and household chores; however, concepts such as new fatherhood and other modern-day trends indicate a change. Men spend considerably more time raising and caring for their children and also devote more time to household chores—cooking has become one of the activities that men do very often. Various individual and structural factors affect the distribution of domestic work between the genders. The paper discusses the following factors: economic stability, informal support, childbirth, children’s participation, employment status, socialization, institutional childcare, family politics and the self-evident distribution of domestic work. In our analysis, we applied the qualitative method, more specifically, we used the semi-structured in-depth interviews, to study the importance and the impact that these factors have on the representative sample. The paper is based on five research questions; namely we are interested in the current domestic work distribution between the genders. Among other, we examined the temporal and content aspects of performing household chores. Great attention was devoted to various factors, mainly the factor of self-evident distribution of domestic work.
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