The Politics of Housework
The Politics of Housework
Couples's division of housework varies across class, ethnic, temporal, as well as country contexts. In this chapter, policy differences that give rise to distinctive divisions of domestic work are analyzed. It examines how policy differences influence the balance of women's and men's time in the home and the workplace in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The chapter also links gender inequality with class inequality and observes that couples with higher incomes have greater parity in their division of housework.
Keywords: housework, policy differences, domestic work, time, workplace, Australia, United Kingdom, United States, gender inequality, class inequality
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