Dividing the domestic : men, women, and household work in cross-national perspective
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Dividing the domestic : men, women, and household work in cross-national perspective
（Studies in social inequality）
Stanford University Press, c2010
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Why study housework? / Judith Treas
- Trends in housework / Liana C. Sayer
- Women's employment and housework / Tanja van der Lippe
- The politics of housework / Lynn Prince Cooke
- Can state policies produce equality in housework? / Shirley Dex
- Economic inequality and housework / Sanjiv Gupta ... [et al.]
- Cultural and institutional contexts / Birgit Pfau-Effinger
- Beliefs about maternal employment / Maria Charles and Erin Cech
- The institution of marriage / Carrie Yodanis
- Pair relationships and housework / Karl Alexander Röhler and Johannes Huinink
- Men's and women's reports about housework / Claudia Geist
- Concluding thoughts on the societal context of housework / Sonja Drobnič
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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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