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Professor Daiji Kawaguchi
Professor
Graduate School of Economics
University of Tokyo

This study investigates how rearrangement of division of labor within a household reshapes gender role attitudes. Using the expansion of remote work as a driver of the increase in husbands’ engagement in housework, we analyze how this shift in the division of labor affects gender role attitudes of husbands and wives. The results indicate that when husbands worked from home, husbands’ own traditional gender role attitudes weakened; by contrast, wives’ traditional attitudes strengthened, an effect primarily driven by those who had held traditional views. These findings suggest that wives who strongly value their role in household production react defensively when husbands encroach on their household sphere, thereby reinforcing their support for traditional gender divisions as a means of preserving role identity.