Divided Time - Gender, Paid Employment and Domestic Labour

List of contents

1. The Theoretical Context: In Search of a Usable Framework 2. Measuring the Household Division of Labour 3. A Preliminary Model of Partners’ Time Contributions to Household Labour 4. Establishing the Pattern of Attitudes Toward Men’s and Women’s Work Roles 5. The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Domestic Work Practices 6. The Effects of Life and Work History on Gender Attitudes and Domestic Work Practices 7. Partners’ Satisfaction With and Conflict Over the Domestic Division of Labour 8. Conclusions.

About the author

Richard Layte

Summary

Published in 1999, an examination of how couples divide their time between domestic and paid work and of the effects that tensions between the two can have. Representative evidence is combined with previous small scale research to show how private troubles are related to massive social and economic changes in British society.

Additional text

’...breaks new ground...’ Lydia Morris, University of Exeter, UK ’...a very informative and insightful study of the division of labour.’ Journal of Family Studies ’As well as providing a layered and absorbing set of interrogations of a large empirical data-set, Layte also offers a detailed and thought-provoking critique of the existing literature and research on domestic divisions of labour...a very significant book that makes a crucial and well-grounded contribution to the literature on work patterns in heterosexual couple households. It would be a valuable resource not only in courses where gender work patterns are examined but also for research methods courses in showing how different types of data each have an important role to play in accounting for attitudes and actions.’ Sociological Research Online

Product details

• Authors: Richard Layte, Layte Richard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138311626
• ISBN: 978-1-138-31162-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, Labour / income economics, Sociology: family & relationships, Labour Economics, Social issues & processes, Gender studies, gender groups, Social and ethical issues, Sociology: family and relationships, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General