SOC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Nanny, Aisle, Escalator
9 Apr 2020
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Most housework is devoted to cleaning and cooking, but maintenance, working in the yard, shopping, and paying bills are housework as well: market work - work done by employees for pay . Typically, when we say work , we are referring to this type of work. This sometimes includes housework (e. g. paying a housecleaner) and. We will examine the three types of work and the gendered division of labor among and care work (e. g. hiring a nanny) within them. 1920: 5% of married women with children in paid labor force. Even when the younger child reached school age, over 70% of married women were still full-time homemakers. Beginning of 21st century: over 60% of mothers with children under six and nearly 80% of mothers with children in school were now in the paid labor force. Previous norm of full-time stay-at-home motherhood was strongest among white, economically privileged women.
