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The ‘triple overlap’ refers to the link between gender stratification, the household and economic variables. In this volume, leading sociologists examine this overlap as a totality, providing theoretical concepts and new research on how the triple overlap works, both inside the family and within the broader context of society. Their competing conceptions of the interrelationship of gender, family and economy are bolstered by empirical papers which raise questions of culture, class and race within the contexts of both the developed and developing worlds. Six of the articles in this volume were previously published as a Special Issue of Journal of Family Issues.
The Division of Household Labor: Suggestions for Future Empirical Consideration and Theoretical Development
The Division of Household Labor: Suggestions for Future Empirical Consideration and Theoretical Development
Since the early 1970s when Oakley (1974) asked London housewives if the husbands “helped” with a number of household chores, the literature on division of household labor has advanced on a number of different fronts. As reflected in the wording of Oakley's question on the “helpful” involvement of husbands in housework, her goal was not to question the assumption that housework was the wife's domain, but rather to argue that, in spite of its nonpaying status, housework was real work for women and, as such, worthy of legitimate sociological study. More recent scholars, weighing the impacts of the entrance of ...
