Book contents
- Creating Equality at Home
- Advance Praise for Creating Equality at Home
- Creating Equality at Home
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Development and Gender Equality in Participating Countries
- Setting the Stage
- Consciously Creating Equality
- Violating Social Norms
- Prioritizing Family
- Drawing on Lessons from Families of Origin
- Using Government Policies
- What We Have Learned
- 26 Undoing Gender: Different Cultures, Similar Stories
- 27 Conclusion: The Paths to Equality
- Index
- References
26 - Undoing Gender: Different Cultures, Similar Stories
from What We Have Learned
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2020
- Creating Equality at Home
- Advance Praise for Creating Equality at Home
- Creating Equality at Home
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Development and Gender Equality in Participating Countries
- Setting the Stage
- Consciously Creating Equality
- Violating Social Norms
- Prioritizing Family
- Drawing on Lessons from Families of Origin
- Using Government Policies
- What We Have Learned
- 26 Undoing Gender: Different Cultures, Similar Stories
- 27 Conclusion: The Paths to Equality
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter describes the ways in which couples undo gender by resisting the mandate for men to prioritize paid work while women prioritize care. In contrast, in diverse cultures couples created equality when men forged an unconventional relation to paid work (e.g., working part-time or passing up promotions that interfere with family life), when they took on stereotypically maternal care tasks (e.g., diapering and comforting), when women freely shared the “maternal” role, when they insisted that their jobs/careers were as important as their partners’, and when couples shared housework.
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- Creating Equality at HomeHow 25 Couples around the World Share Housework and Childcare, pp. 345 - 365Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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