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Article: Gender equality and participation in housework: a cross - national perspective.
- Article from:
- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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INTRODUCTION
The gender division of labor in the home is a central component of the continued existence of gender stratification. Recent feminist theory has argued that the division of labor in the home is more than just an unequal distribution of tasks between men and women but also involves the reproduction and maintenance of gender itself (Berk 1985; West and Zimmerman, 1987; Ferree, 1990). In other words, not only does the division of household labor between husbands and wives involve the production of goods and services, but it also involves the production of gender. Others have focused on the injustices of an unequal division of labor arguing that women's ...