Dividing the Domestic
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Dividing the Domestic

Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dividing the Domestic

Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective

About this book

In Dividing the Domestic, leading international scholars roll up their sleeves to investigate how culture and country characteristics permeate our households and our private lives. The book introduces novel frameworks for understanding why the household remains a bastion of traditional gender relations—even when employed full-time, women everywhere still do most of the work around the house, and poor women spend more time on housework than affluent women. Education systems, tax codes, labor laws, public polices, and cultural beliefs about motherhood and marriage all make a difference. Any accounting of "who does what" needs to consider the complicity of trade unions, state arrangements for children's schooling, and new cultural prescriptions for a happy marriage. With its cross-national perspective, this pioneering volume speaks not only to sociologists concerned with gender and family, but also to those interested in scholarship on states, public policy, culture, and social inequality.

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Table of contents

  1. STUDIES IN - SOCIAL INEQUALITY
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Table of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  9. PART I - OVERVIEW
  10. PART II - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HOUSEWORK
  11. PART III - THE CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON HOUSEWORK
  12. PART IV - THE EVALUATION OF CROSS-NATIONAL RESEARCH ON HOUSEWORK
  13. INDEX
  14. STUDIES IN SOCIAL INEQUALITY