The persistence of gender inequalities in the distribution of unpaid work: an explanatory contribution Chaves, Miguel Teixeira, Ana Lucía Martín-Lagos López, María Dolores Donat, Marta This article analyses whether and to what extent gender inequalities persist in the distribution of unpaid domestic work among younger Europeans with higher education, segments of society where the ideals of gender equality are particularly present. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme, we show that this inequality persists to a significant degree, which leads us to draw up a set of hypotheses aimed at contributing to the effort to analyse this phenomenon. This framework of hypotheses draws attention to the importance of analytically considering the cultural survival, albeit in a mitigated, modified and diffuse form, of relevant aspects of the male breadwinner model. 2026-01-29T11:10:38Z 2026-01-29T11:10:38Z 2025 journal article https://hdl.handle.net/10481/110475 https://doi.org/10.4000/14526 eng open access