Dividing the domestic : men, women, and household work in cross-national perspective /

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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 everywher...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Treas, Judith, Drobnič, Sonja
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Series:Studies in social inequality.
Subjects:
Sex role > Cross-cultural studies.
Sexual division of labor > Cross-cultural studies.
Housekeeping > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Rôle selon le sexe > Études transculturelles.
Travail domestique > Aspect social > Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
Housekeeping > Social aspects.
Sex role.
Sexual division of labor.
Hausarbeit
Geschlechterrolle
Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung
Internationaler Vergleich
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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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