Inequality in the Distribution of Domestic and Care Work and Risk of Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Mexico.

Irene Casique Rodríguez, CRIM-UNAM

In the last 20 years, the research on care work and its effects on the lives of women has developed extensively. This paper will examine the distribution of domestic and caregiving work (D&CW) among (heterosexual) partners in Mexico and the association between the D&CW performed by women and by their partners with women's risk of IPV. Three central objectives guide this work: 1. To explore the magnitude of inequality in D&CW participation among women and their partners; 2. To identify the explanatory factors of Mexican men's and women's participation in D&CW; and 3. To examine the association between women’s participation in D&CW participation and the risk of IPV against them. Data from the National Survey of Household Dynamics (ENDIREH) 2021 in Mexico will be used to establish the significance of domestic workload on the risk of IPV against women, using the subsample of Mexican women in union (legal or free union) (n = 68,574). Preliminary results confirm the persistence of a pattern of extensive inequality around the domestic and care work and the results of the logistic regression models suggest that as women's participation in D&CW increases, the risk of the four types of IPV increases significantly.

Keywords: Gender Dynamics, Inequality, Disadvantage and Discrimination

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