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A symmetrical family model of two workers/care-givers is a central political ambition in Norway as in many other Western European countries. In order to explore how common this family type is, we use a multinomial latent-class model and develop a typology of dual-earner couples with children based on the partners’ allocation of paid and unpaid work. Using data on 2,617 couples from the Norwegian Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), we estimate four classes, two of which are characterized by a fairly equal sharing of paid and unpaid work between the partners, and two of which have more traditional arrangements. Four out of ten couples belong to one of the gender-equal classes. Equal sharing is most likely when the partners are well educated and work regular hours and the father has public-sector employment. The most traditional practice is likely when the partners have less education, the mother has health problems, the father works in the private sector, and the partners work non-regular hours.
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