Spontaneous Occurrence of Division of Labor during Internship

In the current study, an online scenario experiment was conducted with residents in the United Kingdom to examine how the difference in the mortality rates of the occupations in which participants took part is related to the division of labor that occurs between men and women when they participate in a virtual internship and form a pair with someone of the opposite sex. As a result of the analysis using analysis of covariance, it was found that men tend to voluntarily bear more work than women. Furthermore, while there was no difference in the amount of work chosen between men and women assigned to low-risk occupations, when they were assigned to a high-risk occupation, men tended to voluntarily bear more work than women. Although there was no difference in the amount of work men chose depending on the assigned occupation, women assigned to high-risk occupations chose a smaller amount of work compared to women assigned to low-risk occupations. Therefore, it was concluded that what caused the division of labor between men and women in the current study was not men’s risk-taking, but rather women’s risk avoidance.