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How might women benefit from a redistribution of paid employment and unpaid work? This, in some ways, is an impossible question to address; as many studies of women’s experiences within and outside the labour market tell us, the diversity and heterogeneity of these experiences precludes any simple answer. But it is also an extremely pertinent question for many different groups of women, across a range of circumstances. Surely a common experience for most working women is negotiation around the issues associated with combining paid employment with unpaid domestic work.
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In particular, those women who are well enough paid to be able to employ others.
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Woodward, R. (1998). Reducing The Burden of Work on Women?. In: Wheelock, J., Vail, J. (eds) Work and Idleness. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4397-4_9
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