Gender, Work Burden, and Mental Health in Post-Reform China
基于2010年中国家庭追踪调查数据，研究发现总工作负担（包括有酬和无酬劳动）对城市在职男女的心理健康均有负面影响，且女性因工作时间更长、更易陷入时间贫困，导致心理健康性别差距。
This study investigates how total work burden, including paid work and unpaid care work, affects the mental health of prime-age, employed women and men in urban China. Based on the 2010 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), regression results indicate that total work burden is negatively related to the mental health of both men and women, consistent with the idea that additional work hours reduce time available for rest and leisure. Women have longer working hours and are more likely to be time poor than men, and this gender inequality in total work burden contributes to the gender gap in mental health. The relationships between the components of total work burden – paid and unpaid work – and mental health shed further light on the strength of gender norms and the barriers to redistribution of unpaid work from women to men necessary to reduce the gender gap in mental health.