SOC349H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: European Canadian, Junk Food, Healthy Diet
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It"s just easier if i do it: rationalizing the family division of food work by beagan. Women, men and children employed similar rationales for why women did most of the foodwork, though explanations differed somewhat by ethno-cultural group. Research on the domestic division of labour consistently shows that women are disproportionately involved in foodwork, despite increased involvement in paid work. This article is based on findings from a canadian study exploring how family members perceive and justify the division of foodwork in their households. Few previous studies (baxter, 2000; nordenmark and nyman, 2003) have included the perceptions of men or children. We identify the rationales family members offered for the fact that in almost all of the families women performed most of the foodwork. While gender roles were rarely explicitly named as a rationale, except in the. Punjabi families, they nonetheless operated in complex ways within other, apparently gender-neutral rationales.
