Conjugal roles, kinship roles and the division of labour

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In this chapter I discuss men's and women's work, pointing out that women's work is very labour intensive. Child-care, for instance, is entirely in the hands of women. They cannot take advantage of the technical innovations of the public sphere to relieve the burden, for this is the province of men. On the other hand, women who are closely confined to the home and its concerns, townswomen especially, are often more concerned about how to spend time and effort than how to save them, so that labour-intensive techniques have the function of combatting boredom.

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