The house belongs to both
Undoing the Gendered Division of Housework
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2172373 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta Domínguez-Folgueras (0000-0003-2071-699X, Observatoire sociologique du changement (OSC), Sciences Po, Paris, France), Teresa Jurado Guerrero (0000-0002-8391-2229, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Carmen Botía-Morillas (0000-0003-2942-3202, Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Patricia Amigot (0000-0003-0764-4784, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 424-443 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Community Work & Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-8803 • E-ISSN: 1469-3615 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13668803.2016.1192525 |
| OpenAlex | W2413027152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article studies 28 dual-income Spanish childless couples who were undoing gender in routine domestic work. We understand ‘undoing gender’ as defined by Deutsch [(2007). Undoing gender. Gender & Society, 21, 106–127, p. 122]: ‘social interactions that reduce gender difference’. The dual-earner couples came from different socio-economic backgrounds and were interviewed in four different Spanish towns in 2011. The analysis shows that resources in a wide sense, time availability, external help, ideas about fairness, and complex gender attitudes are key interdependent factors that can weave together to form different configurations leading to a non-mainstream division of housework. All configurations were based on principles of gender equality: some couples found it fair to have a 50/50 division of domestic work, others a 50/50 division of all work (paid and unpaid); and a third group showed conflicts in practice. These couples’ ways of undoing gender illustrate the external, individual, and couple circumstances under which spouses are able to achieve a non-traditional construction of unpaid work
Art · Division of labour · Doing gender · Domestic work · Dual (grammatical number · Economics · Interdependence · Labour economics · Mainstream · Paid work · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Undoing · Unpaid work · Work (physics · Working hours · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Gender Studies · Law
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Not worth mentioning
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |