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Article Dans Une Revue Community, Work and Family Année : 2017

‘The house belongs to both’: undoing the gendered division of housework

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This article studies 28 dual-income Spanish childless couples who were undoing gender in routine domestic work. We understand ‘undoing gender’ as defined by Deutsch [(2007). Undoing gender. Gender & Society, 21, 106–127, p. 122]: ‘social interactions that reduce gender difference’. The dual-earner couples came from different socio-economic backgrounds and were interviewed in four different Spanish towns in 2011. The analysis shows that resources in a wide sense, time availability, external help, ideas about fairness, and complex gender attitudes are key interdependent factors that can weave together to form different configurations leading to a non-mainstream division of housework. All configurations were based on principles of gender equality: some couples found it fair to have a 50/50 division of domestic work, others a 50/50 division of all work (paid and unpaid); and a third group showed conflicts in practice. These couples’ ways of undoing gender illustrate the external, individual, and couple circumstances under which spouses are able to achieve a non-traditional construction of unpaid work.

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Sociologie
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hal-03579767 , version 1 (18-02-2022)

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Marta Dominguez Folgueras, Teresa Jurado Guerrero, Carmen Botía Morillas, Patricia Amigot Leache. ‘The house belongs to both’: undoing the gendered division of housework. Community, Work and Family, 2017, 20, pp.424-443. ⟨10.1080/13668803.2016.1192525⟩. ⟨hal-03579767⟩
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