SOC366H1 Lecture Notes - Ranter, Guanxi, Bargaining
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Gender, power and money in the private sphere: What are the models and frameworks used for how housework is divided. Trends in household labour: what has gone over time, cross- sectional (one moment in time) Example: how she would do a critical review. What would lead to more gender parity in housework. Relative resources approach is a) exchange based and a b)dependency perspective. Division of labour at home is negotiation between spouses based on earnings and this creates an output. I will barter with what i bring home. Hypothesis: women"s employment and participation has risen, so has wages. Therefore increase in wages should decrease the amount of work they do at home. Hypothesis 1: women"s paid work is a lot, increase in housework. If you"re at work, you have less time to do work at home. Reality, employed moms and unemployed moms do only slightly less work. They carry out a second shift: problem with this theory****
