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  1. Working-Class Job Loss, Gender, and the Negotiation of Household Labor.Marie Cornwall & Elizabeth Miklya Legerski - 2010 - Gender and Society 24 (4):447-474.
    Scholars see the gendered division of household labor as a stronghold of gender inequality. We explore changes in household labor and gender relations when conservative, working-class families experience employment disruptions. Using data from 49 qualitative interviews conducted with men and women following the forced unemployment of breadwinning husbands, we observe some change in gendered household labor but conclude that a significant degendering of housework is thwarted by institutional-, interactive-, and individual-level processes. At the institutional level, the lack of well-paying jobs (...)
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  • The Gender Division of Labor: “Keeping House” and Occupational Segregation in the United States.Philip N. Cohen - 2004 - Gender and Society 18 (2):239-252.
    This article explores the effect of women’s movement into the labor market on the gender segregation of work, using the Current Population Survey from 1972 to 1993. The author includes as working those respondents who were “keeping house” and codes keeping house as an occupation. The results show higher estimates of gender segregation, and slightly steeper declines over time, than were seen in previous studies. Analysis of one-year longitudinal changes reveals less movement out of female-dominated occupations when keeping house is (...)
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