On Apr 19, 2007, at 8:06 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
> Moreover, it also depends on what kind of work we're talking. If
> you just
> talk normal "chores" you leave out a whole bunch of stuff that
> people don't
> consider such as "caring work" and "emotional work" (see Arlie
> Hochschild's
> work).
About that, the authors say:
> The fact [i.e. the equality of work time] is thus not new in the
> sociology literature, although it is new in the economics
> literature. The difficulty, however, is that it has been swamped by
> claims in widely circulated sociological studies (Hochschild, 1997,
> and earlier work) based on ethnographic research on a few non-
> randomly chosen households that women's total work significantly
> exceeds men's. Indeed, even sociologists who have demonstrated it
> (e.g., Mattingly and Bianchi, 2003, for the United States, and
> Bittman and Wajcman, 2000, for several countries), quickly move
> beyond it to focus on showing that women's work is more onerous
> than men's, and why women's leisure provides less pleasure.