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What Do We Learn About Gender by Analyzing Housework Separately From Child Care? Some Considerations From Time‐Use Evidence
Author(s) -
Sullivan Oriel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of family theory and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.454
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1756-2589
pISSN - 1756-2570
DOI - 10.1111/jftr.12007
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , child care , division of labour , care work , psychology , sociology , gender analysis , gender studies , developmental psychology , work (physics) , social psychology , political science , medicine , nursing , computer science , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , law , engineering
This article presents an overview of the gendered distinctions between housework and child care, illustrating those distinctions through time‐use diary research. Following the logic of the gender structure perspective, I discuss findings that demonstrate differences between the gendered performance of housework and child care at the individual, institutional, and interactional levels of the gender structure. I show that distinguishing between housework and child care at these different levels of analysis aids in developing a more nuanced appreciation of the processes that underpin the gender division of domestic work and care, and I argue that these distinctions have important implications for gender theory and policy .