The role of men in family childcare in Russia: socio-demographic profiles of egalitarian and traditional men

Gender factor is the driver of gender transition in fertility in low-fertility countries. Prospects of demographic development and maintain a relatively high fertility depends on the availability of gender policy, and especially the involvement of men in child care and household work. Gender equity concept is also relevant to explaining fertility behavior of Russian population. To develop gendered demographic policy in context of men involving in childcare and domestic tasks it is necessary to investigate which patterns of male participation in child care we have in present time and which men have a more egalitarian or more traditional family behaviour in Russia. This paper is devoted to the role of men in the childcare and children’s upbringing in Russian families. The goal of the research is to figure out the factors determining the men’s participation in the children’s upbringing and care in Russian families and to draw the picture of the socio-demographic profiles of egalitarian and traditional men using satisfaction of partners with child care distribution. Data: Macrodata: Rosstat Time Use Survey 2010. Microdata: Gender and Generation Survey (GGS Russia); Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS). Methods: multivariate, factor, cluster analysis.