Christopher Couples at Work

Negotiating Paid Employment, Housework, and Childcare
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2497-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Sociology of Children and Families

This book offers a unique look into how couples manage paid employment, housework, and childcare. The author explores how employment structures, policies, and practices intersect with individual attitudes to either reinforce or challenge gender inequalities in the domestic sphere through the ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ of gender.

The book introduces a new typology of fathering as a key mechanism through which policies affect domestic divisions of labour, demonstrating how this typology shapes the tasks men undertake and the impact of this on women’s ability to act on their ‘preferences’ about how to combine paid work and home

By examining couples' negotiations of housework and childcare, the book highlights the disparity between men’s and women’s reports on household duties, revealing distinct gendered differences in how these tasks are conceptualized and measured.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christopher, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Arbeitsplatz, Arbeitsschutz, Gefahrstoffschutz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Couples at Work: An Introduction

2. Policies and Practices

3. Reconciling Paid Work and Motherhood

4. Reconciling Paid Work and Fatherhood

5. Who Does the Childcare?

6. Who Does the Housework?

7. Couples at Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher, Emily
Emily Christopher is Lecturer in Sociology and Policy at Aston University.