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De-gendered Processes, Gendered Outcomes: How Egalitarian Couples Make Sense of Non-egalitarian Household Practices:
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Despite widespread support for gender-egalitarianism, men's and women's household labor contributions remain strikingly unequal as mentioned in this paper, and the barriers to women's and men's equalization remain largely unequal.Abstract:
Despite widespread support for gender-egalitarianism, men’s and women’s household labor contributions remain strikingly unequal. This article extends prior research on barriers to equality by close...read more
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Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives
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Firewood in the forest: Social practices, culture, and energy transitions in a remote village of the Brazilian Amazon
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No Room of her Own: Married Couples’ Negotiation of Workspace at Home During COVID-19
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Gendered Pressures: Divergent Experiences Linked to Housework Time Among Partnered Men and Women1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the understanding of the "stall" to include both men's and women's unpaid labor time, and show that a stubborn gap remains between the two genders.
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: A Treatise on the Family by G. S. Becker as discussed by the authors is one of the most famous and influential economists of the second half of the 20th century, a fervent contributor to and expounder of the University of Chicago free-market philosophy, and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics.
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The Foundations of Social Theory
TL;DR: In this article, a course on the foundations of social theory, starting with the French and Scottish Enlightenments and the beginnings of a specifically sociological worldview, is presented, where the authors try to understand their theories not just as historical relics, but as living sets of ideas relevant to contemporary social issues.
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Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor
TL;DR: The authors found that the number of hours of domestic labor has continued to decline steadily and predictably since 1965, mainly due to dramatic declines among women, who have cut their housework hours almost in half since the 1960s.
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Research on household labor : Modeling and measuring the social embeddedness of routine family work
TL;DR: More than 200 articles and books on household labor published between 1989 and 1999 have been reviewed in this article, showing that women have reduced and men have increased slightly their hourly contributions to housework.
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Unpacking the Gender System A Theoretical Perspective on Gender Beliefs and Social Relations
TL;DR: According to as discussed by the authors, widely shared, hegemonic cultural beliefs about gender and their impact in what the authors call "social relational" contexts are among the core components that maintain and change the gender system.