Abstract

BOIX VILELLA, Salvador; BARRERA GARCIA, Raquel  and  SERRANO ROSA, Miguel Ángel. Housework, childcare and psychosocial health variables according to gender of teachers and non-teachers. Acad. (Asunción) [online]. 2023, vol.10, n.1, pp.47-59. ISSN 2414-8938.  https://doi.org/10.30545/academo.2023.ene-jun.5.

The main objective of this exploratory study is to discover differences between men and women in performing housework and childcare, analyzing possible relationships with psychosocial health variables. In addition, it seeks to find out if there are also differences based on gender inside and outside the teaching profession. A total of 79 participants who live with their partner (38 teachers and 45 tertiary sector workers) participate in this study. The work design is descriptive-comparative and cross-sectional. The results indicate that women, regardless of their profession, have a higher degree of involvement in childcare. In addition, the group of women also presented higher levels of depression and physical fatigue and worse mood than men. By profession, it is observed that men teachers are less involved than their partners in their children's food, rest, leisure, education and hygiene. All the results are discussed emphasizing the need to implement measures that help improve the women’s well-being and encourage a real co-responsibility between men and women.

Keywords : Work; women; men; fatigue; health..

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