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.
| ISBN: | 9780804763578 |
| Publication date: | 25th February 2010 |
| Author: | Judith Treas, Sonja Drobnic |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 261 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Social Inequality |
| Genres: |
Sociology: family and relationships |
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.
Dividing the Domestic features in the following genres: Sociology: family and relationships
Dividing the Domestic is available in Hardback
Dividing the Domestic was written by Judith Treas, Sonja Drobnic and published by Stanford University Press
Dividing the Domestic has 261 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Social Inequality series