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2 - Past and Current Research

from Setting the Stage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2020

By
Francine M. Deutsch  and
Ruth A. Gaunt
Edited by
Francine M. Deutsch  and
Ruth A. Gaunt
Francine M. Deutsch
Affiliation:
Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
Ruth A. Gaunt
Affiliation:
University of Lincoln
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Summary

Chapter 2 reviews the extant theory and research on domestic labor including scholarship on relative resources, time availability, gender ideology, national context, and doing gender. It then argues that all of these theories are inadequate to explain how some couples are able to achieve equality, and proposes instead to examine the everyday interactions by which couples undo gender.

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domestic laborrelative resourcestime availabilitygender ideologycross-culturalfamily policydoing genderundoing gender
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Creating Equality at Home
How 25 Couples around the World Share Housework and Childcare
 , pp. 8 - 28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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