Sexual division of labour

About: Sexual division of labour is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 196 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4921 citations. The topic is also known as: SDL.

Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour

Abstract: * Foreword by Silvia Federici * Preface to the critique influence change edition * Introduction * 1. What is Feminism? * 2. Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour * 3. Colonization and Housewifization * 4. Housewifization International: Women and the International Division of Labour * 5. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital * 6. National Liberation and Women's Liberation * 7. Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society

Why do men hunt? a reevaluation of "Man the Hunter" and the sexual division of labor

Abstract: The role of men in hunter‐gatherer societies has been subject to vigorous debate over the past 15 years. The proposal that men hunt wild game as a form of status signaling or “showing off” to provide reproductive benefits to the hunter challenges the traditional view that men hunt to provision their families. Two broad assumptions underlie the signaling view: (1) hunting is a poor means of obtaining food, and (2) hunted game is a public good shared widely with others and without expectation of future reciprocation. If hunters lack the ability to direct food shares and obtain subsequent benefits contingent on redistribution, then the ubiquitous observations of male hunting and universal pair‐bonding cannot be explained from a perspective that emphasizes kin provisioning and a division of labor. Here we show that there is little empirical support for the view that men hunt for signaling benefits alone. The ethnographic record depicts a more complex relationship between food sharing patterns, subsistence str...

Reproduction, production and the sexual division of labour.

Abstract: PIP: This basically economic treatise elaborates the thesis that the focal point of women's economic activities is provided by their special role in the reproduction of the labor force. Given that change in sex roles is necessary in order not to perpetuate a division of labor which places women in subordinate positions, this paper attempts to analyze the nature and functions of traditional sex roles and to study the structures that have supported them through generations in an effort to conceptualize the relevant issues and to set up a general framework from which change in social structure relating to women and their economic dependency can proceed. In addition, specific studies of concrete situations observed within and across countries and cultural barriers are used for illustration. The argument, simply stated, which the paper seeks to prove, is that male domination develops around the need to control reproduction in its different aspects; the concept of reproduction used here indicates a dynamic process of change linked with the perpetuation of social systems. It includes social as well as physical reproduction, and its meaning therefore goes beyond that of reproduction of human beings. This concept of reproduction is isolated in discussions of production and the sexual division of labor, including agrarian structures and modes of production; the commercialization and proletarization of agriculture; and the availability of labor resources and development of wage labor markets. The implications of this concept of reproduction in population policy, specifically population control, are not explicitly discussed but are tremendously important.

Men's work, women's work : a sociological history of the sexual division of labour in employment

Abstract: Part 1 The sociological and historical context: gender segregation and the sex-typing of jobs the historical debates the sociological debates. Part 2 Case studies: A - primary production - food and raw materials, agriculture, fishing, mining B - the secondary sector - manufacturing and factories, pottery, hosiery, shoemaking, the new industries C - the tertiary sector - professions and services industries, shopwork, medicine, teaching. Part 3 Conclusion: gendered jobs and social inequality.

No exit for wives: sexual division of labour and the cumulation of household demands

Abstract: Deux theses opposees sont formuluees sur la division sexuelle du travail domestique: une ‘theorie d'associes en adaptation mutuelle’ et une ‘theorie de travail subordonne.’ Des budgets de temps de semaine et de fin de semaine de plusieurs centaines de couples maries du Grand Vancouver sont analyses de facon a permettre un choix entre les deux theses. Les resultats de l'analyse sont compatibles avec la theorie du travail subordonne de la femme mariee. lis rendent la theorie d'associes en adaptation peu vraisemblable, vu que la conduite des maris demeure insensible a la cumulation des tâches domestiques causees par l'emploi de la femme, les heures prolongees de travail et les jeunes enfants. Two conflicting arguments on the sexual division of household labour are formulated: an ‘adaptive partnership theory’ and a ‘dependent labour theory.’ Workday and weekend time budgets of several hundred married couples in Greater Vancouver are analysed in order to choose the most adequate of the two arguments. The results of the analysis are consistent with the theory of married women's dependent labour. They make the theory of adaptive partnership implausible, as the conduct of husbands remains insensitive to the cumulation of demands on the household, of wives' employment, extended job hours, and young children.