The Gender Factory The Apportionment of Work in American Households
tion addressed by this analysis centers on the reciprocal relation between 1 household domestic and market work efforts. It should be obvious by now that this chapter is not concerned ex plicitly with the contributions of individual members to household or mar ket activity, nor does it examine the...
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New York, NY
Springer US
1985, 1985
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1985 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Conceptualizing the Division of Household Labor
- Who Does What: Some Empirical Generalizations
- Traditional Conceptual Frameworks: Two Examples
- The New Home Economics: Reluctant Materialism
- An Overview of the Analysis
- 2. Measuring Household and Market Labors
- and Background
- The Measurement of Household Labor
- The Measurement of Market Labor Time
- Household and Market Work: Endogenous Variables
- 3. Sample Characteristics and Initial Description
- The Sample
- Household Members’ Market Time and Household Labor
- Additional Measures of the Division of Labor
- Conclusions
- 4. The Household “Pie”: Market Time Household Tasks, and Household Time
- Describing the Household “Pie”
- Model Specification
- Model 1: Market Time and Household Tasks
- Model 2: The Minutes per day of Market and Household Labor
- Overview and Conclusions: The Household “Pie”
- 5. Dividing It Up: The Mechanisms of Asymmetry
- The Model
- Slicing the “Pie”
- Conclusiond: a “Gendered” Allocation System
- 6. Wives’ Time: Another View
- A Partial Model
- Findings and Discussion
- Conclusions and Speculations
- 7. Conclusions: Work and Gender
- and Reprise
- Managing the Division of Labor: Consensus and Equity
- The Structures of Household Labor
- Mechanisms of Choice and Constraint
- A Final Note on Change
- References
- Appendix A: Diary Instructions
- Appendix B: Household Work Study
- Appendix C: Content of Household Work-Tasks Codes
- Appendix D: Household Activities Sorted by Husbands in Order of Accomplishment