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Having a Wife: The Division of Labour and Male Right

Anthony McMahon-1999-08-13-Cambridge University Press eBooks
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The basic facts about the gendered division of domestic work, especially the double burden of employed wives and mothers, are hardly a secret. Qualitative sociological studies such as Arlie Hochschild's The Second Shift (1989) have been widely reported. News items based on quantitative data from large-scale studies also appear, often being contrasted with the ‘myth’ of the New Man:

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The basic facts about the gendered division of domestic work, especially the double burden of employed wives and mothers, are hardly a secret. Qualitative sociological studies such as Arlie Hochschild's The Second Shift (1989) have been widely reported. News items based on quantitative data from large-scale studies also appear, often being contrasted with the ‘myth’ of the New Man:

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WifeDivision (mathematics)Division of labourPsychologySociologyGender studiesLabour economicsPolitical science

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