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The new gender essentialism - domestic and family 'choices' and their relation to attitudes
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Crompton, Rosemary and Lyonette, Clare (2005) The new gender essentialism - domestic and family 'choices' and their relation to attitudes. The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 56 (Number 4). pp. 601-620. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00085.x ISSN 1468-4446.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00085.x
Abstract
This paper critically examines two strands within contemporary gender essentialism – that is, the argument that men and women are fundamentally different and that it is this ‘difference’ that explains the continuing social and material differences between the sexes. The first strand we examine is Hakim's ‘preference theory’, which has argued that persisting sex differences in employment patterns are an outcome of the ‘choices’ made by different ‘types’ of women. We next examine the claims of populist conservative feminism, that has argued that women (and men) in partnerships will be happier if they adopt a gender role traditionalism in the domestic sphere. Our empirical findings suggest that neither of these theoretical explanations are supported by our data, which is derived from the samples of six countries participating in the International Social Survey Programme Family 2002 module.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sex role, Essentialism (Philosophy), Labor, Vocational guidance | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The British Journal of Sociology | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 1468-4446 | ||||||
Official Date: | December 2005 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 56 | ||||||
Number: | Number 4 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 19 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 601-620 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00085.x | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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