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This book offers a unique look into how couples manage paid employment, housework, and childcare. The author explores how employment structures, policies, and practices intersect with individual attitudes to either reinforce or challenge gender inequalities in the domestic sphere through the ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ of gender.
The book introduces a new typology of fathering as a key mechanism through which policies affect domestic divisions of labour, demonstrating how this typology shapes the tasks men undertake and the impact of this on women’s ability to act on their ‘preferences’ about how to combine paid work and home
By examining couples' negotiations of housework and childcare, the book highlights the disparity between men’s and women’s reports on household duties, revealing distinct gendered differences in how these tasks are conceptualized and measured.
“Apt, timely evidence detailing how couples combine paid employment and childcare - essential insight for parents, employers, policy makers, and scholars.’ Lynn Jamieson, University of Edinburgh
“Christopher offers a fine-grained analysis of how parents navigate gendered moral pressures of paid and unpaid work, with particular attention to whether and how working in the private or public sector matters. A must read!” Katherine Twamley, University College London
1. Couples at Work: An Introduction
2. Policies and Practices
3. Reconciling Paid Work and Motherhood
4. Reconciling Paid Work and Fatherhood
5. Who Does the Childcare?
6. Who Does the Housework?
7. Couples at Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
8. Conclusion