SOC265H1 Lecture Notes - Sociology Of The Family
Document Summary
Study aimed at looking how parenthood produces gender differences and inequalities. Old explanations of individual gender differences due to childhood socialization, and its presumably lasting effects have been challenged. Focus has turned to structural sources of gender differences, arising out of the gendered division of paid and unpaid work, which shape people"s choices and constrain their options and thus explain much about their behavior and choices as adults. Old focus of socialization meant that considerable attention was directed at families. Patterns that parents develop in their baby"s formative years are perhaps also formative of patterns that will remain in their relationship and structure their household. Transition to parenthood as a key producer of gender divisions in heterosexual couples. Zimmer: argued members do" gender as they do" housework and childcare, and what has been called the division of labor provides for the joint production of household labor and gender. Gender is an ongoing activity embedded in everyday interactions".
