The Library
Sharing the load? : partners' relative earnings and the division of domestic labour
Tools
Tools
Tools
Lyonette, Clare and Crompton, Rosemary (2015) Sharing the load? : partners' relative earnings and the division of domestic labour. Work, Employment & Society, 29 (1). pp. 23-40. doi:10.1177/0950017014523661
![[img]](http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF
WRAP_Work Employment Society-2015-Lyonette-23-40.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (514Kb) |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017014523661
Abstract
One of the most pressing issues contributing to the persistence of gender inequality is the gendered division of domestic labour. Despite their entry into paid employment, women still carry out more domestic work than men, limiting their ability to act on an equal footing within the workplace. This qualitative research adds to the ongoing debate concerning the reasons for the persistence of the gendered nature of domestic work, by comparing working women who earn more, those who earn around the same and those who earn less than their male partners, as well as examining women’s absolute incomes. On average, men whose partners earn more than they do carry out more housework than other men, although women in these partnerships still do more. However, these women actively contest their male partner’s lack of input, simultaneously ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ gender. The article also identifies class differences in the ‘sharing’ of domestic work.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Housekeeping, Sex discrimination against women, Sex role | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Work, Employment & Society | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0950-0170 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 February 2015 | ||||||||||
| Dates: |
|
||||||||||
| Volume: | 29 | ||||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 23-40 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0950017014523661 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||||||
| Grant number: | RES-225-25-2001 (ESRC) |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
