Browsing by Person "Gwozdz, Wencke"

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Maternal employment and childhood obesity : a European perspective
(2013) Bammann, Karin; Williams, Garrath; Veidebaum, Toomas; Lauria, Fabio; Kovacs, Eva; Hadjigeorgiou, Charalampos; Fernandez-Alvira, Juan M.; Eiben, Gabriele; de Henauw, Stefaan; Ahrens, Wolfgang; Reisch, Lucia A.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Gwozdz, Wencke
The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades has often been linked in political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer measures and information from nutritional diaries, we also investigate the effects of maternal employment on obesity's main drivers: calorie intake and physical activity. Our analysis provides little evidence for any association between maternal employment and childhood obesity, diet or physical activity.
Die Persistenz der geschlechtsspezifischen Arbeitsteilung im Haushalt : eine Analyse auf Basis der Zeitbudgeterhebungen des Statistischen Bundesamts
(2008) Gwozdz, Wencke; Seel, Barbara
This study evaluates couples? time use behaviour with regard to housework in Germany with data from the 2001/02 and 1991/92 German Time Use Survey. Despite the fact that women did reduce their hours worked within the household context in the last decades, the unequal division of housework between men and women still persists. This study aims both at analyzing the determinants of the allocation of time spent on housework, as well as why gender differences in household time use behaviour exist. With the aid of structural equation modelling, it is shown that the decrease in time spent on housework by women can largely be explained by changes in the effects that wages, household goods consumption and the aspiration for market goods consumption have on time spent on housework. Men?s time allocation behaviour has remained remarkably constant. It is also observed that women?s time allocation behaviour with regard to household work is becoming more similar to that of men?s.