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CASIQUE, Irene. Explaining men and women's housework participation in Mexico. Pap. poblac [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.55, pp.173-200. ISSN 2448-7147.

This article explores the relation between the women's integration to labor market and the participation of men and women in housework in Mexico. For this analysis information from the National Survey on the Dynamics of the Households Dynamics 2003 (Encuesta Nacional sobre la Dinámica de las Relaciones en los Hogares 2003) is used. The definition of the explanatory factors is carried out by means of multiple linear regressions, using as dependent variables the indexes of participation in housework of men and women. The results indicated that the most relevant factors to explain feminine housework are their decision power level, as a factors which increments its workload at the household, and the presence of a housemaid, as a factor which reduces said workload. For men, the most explanatory factors are the schooling years and the women's work outside the household, as factors which propitiate a greater participation, as well as the presence of a housemaid and the years of union as factors which decrease such participation.

Palabras llave : labor market; housework; extra-domestic work; men; women; Mexico.