Men, Women and Household Work

by Jacqueline J. Goodnow and Jennifer M. Bowes

As recent media coverage has dramatized, the issue of household work has become a major topic of discussion and debate. This book comprises a pathbreaking report on this timely subject. It explores different and more equitable ways of sharing household work, based on substantive interviews with fifty couples. The book examines the nature of domestic work patterns, the dynamics of work sharing, and how these structures influence the styles of talk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195535723
• ISBN13: 9780195535723
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"