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The Gender Factory: The Apportionment of Work in American Households
Abstract
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.
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- Authors
- Nock, S. L., & Berk, S. F.
- Venue
- Journal of Marriage and the Family
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1985-11
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1075
- ISSN
- 0022-2445 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1976382715
- Cited by
- 606
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 12.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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