August 1, 2024
In this paper, we study two hunter-gatherer communities and how they divide labour and leisure in the household. Does the partner who has greater social capital have higher leverage in the household to negociate a bigger share of leisure time? The answer is no. In these communities, there is a remarkably equal division of labour and leisure, even if one of the partner has more capital than the other.
The paper is open access and can be accessessed here:
We were invited to write a blogpost on these findings on the HBES blog. In it, we put forward the main message, as simply and clearly as we could.