The Gender Factory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Conceptualizing the Division of Household Labor

   • Sarah Fenstermaker Berk

   Pages 1-36

3. Measuring Household and Market Labors

   • Sarah Fenstermaker Berk

   Pages 37-58

4. Sample Characteristics and Initial Description

   • Sarah Fenstermaker Berk

   Pages 59-78

5. The Household “Pie”

   • Sarah Fenstermaker Berk

   Pages 79-123

6. Dividing It Up

   • Sarah Fenstermaker Berk

   Pages 125-165

7. Wives’ Time

   • Sarah Fenstermaker Berk

   Pages 167-184

8. Conclusions

   • Sarah Fenstermaker Berk

   Pages 185-211

9. Back Matter

   Pages 213-251

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tion addressed by this analysis centers on the reciprocal relation between 1 household domestic and market work efforts. It should be obvious by now that this chapter is not concerned ex­ plicitly with the contributions of individual members to household or mar­ ket activity, nor does it examine the mechanisms by which work tasks or time is apportioned among them. To reiterate, households per se are the unit of analysis; the division of labor within, with respect to either household or market activities, is ignored. In this chapter, one must pre­ tend that the social relations within the household productive unit, which critically shape both the nature of work and its allocation, are hidden from view. To return to the earlier metaphor, households establish a to­ tal household "pie," made up of all the market and domestic chores that they will undertake and the time required for them. Only after that "pie" is created can it be sliced and the pieces doled out to individual members. 2 The household and market pie defined and described here can be roughly conceptualized as the total productive capacity of the household, or as the result of a pooling of individual talents and resources. Indeed, were a measure of the time available for leisure incorporated into the measure of the pie, the household's full income (budget) constraint (i. e. , the total productive potential of the household) could be described.

• ETA
• gender
• income
• nature

• University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

  Sarah Fenstermaker Berk

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