Dividing the domestic
Subtitle: men, women, and household work in cross-national perspective
By: edited by Judith Treas and Sonja Drobnič
Series: Studies in social inequality; Studies in social inequality
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780804763578
Description: Leading international scholars 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why study housework? / Judith Treas; title: Trends in housework / Liana C. Sayer; title: Women's employment and housework / Tanja van der Lippe; title: The politics of housework / Lynn Prince Cooke; title: Can state policies produce equality in housework? / Shirley Dex; title: Economic inequality and housework / Sanjiv Gupta ... [et al.]; title: Cultural and institutional contexts / Birgit Pfau-Effinger; title: Beliefs about maternal employment / Maria Charles and Erin Cech; title: The institution of marriage / Carrie Yodanis; title: Pair relationships and housework / Karl Alexander Röhler and Johannes Huinink; title: Men's and women's reports about housework / Claudia Geist; title: Concluding thoughts on the societal context of housework / Sonja Drobnič.