Two Hands for the Clock: Changing Patterns in the Gendered Division of Labour in the Home

Luxton, Meg

doi:10.1080/19187033.1983.11675648

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“…Such an approach, therefore, homogenizes women's experiences by assuming that a narrowly defined set of family concerns are central for all female business owners. It also conceptualizes the division of domestic responsibilities as static and given, rather than under continual negotiation by family members (Luxton 1990).…”

Section: Women's Ways Of Doing Businessmentioning

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Feminist Insight on Gendered Work: New Directions in Research on Women and Entrepreneurship

Mirchandani

1999

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper discusses research on female entrepreneurs in conjunction with feminist theory on gendered work. I explore the ways in which much of the research on women's experiences of entrepreneurship focuses on identifying similarities and differences between female and male business owners, and on providing explanations for the differences identified. While such an approach is useful in compensating for the exclusion of women in earlier studies of business ownership, it does not illuminate how and why entrepreneurship came to be defined and understood vis-à-vis the behaviour of only men. I argue that existing knowledge on women business owners could be enhanced through reflection on two issues -first, on the essentialism in the very construction of the category of 'the female entrepreneur' (which prioritizes sex over other dimensions of stratification) and second, on the ways in which the connections between gender, occupation and organizational structure differently affect female and male business owners.

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Section: Women's Ways Of Doing Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Insight on Gendered Work: New Directions in Research on Women and Entrepreneurship

Mirchandani

1999

Gender Work & Organization

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279

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“…While some men do participate in care-giving, in both Western and Asian cultures, the bulk of caring work is still done by women (see Corman and Luxton 2001, Devault 1991, Luxton 1990and Waring 1999. Despite their household and employment diffi culties, cultural ideology also informs immigrants from China to care for their parents or in-laws in China (see Man 1997 andSpitzer et al 2003).…”

Section: Caring For Elderly Parents In Chinamentioning

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The China Challenge : Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century

Cao¹,

Poy²

2011

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“…Equally important, as Glucksmann () makes clear in Cottons and Casuals , different actors in the process may have very different perceptions of time. Relatives, workers, and employers may all have conflicting ideas about and the perception of time needed and devoted to get the work done well (Luxton ).…”

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Puzzling Skills: Feminist Political Economy Approaches

Armstrong

2013

Canadian Review of Sociology

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Je m'appuie sur l'économie politique féministe pour argumenter qu'il nous faut changer notre approche. Au lieu de nous concentrer sur les structures du travail axées sur la déqualification et le contrôle de la maind'œuvre ou sur les individus et leur apprentissage formel, nous devons nous interroger sur les conditions qui empêchent les individus d'acquérir et d'utiliser les compétences voulues et réfléchir aux différents moyens de tenir compte du facteur temps dans la façon d'évaluer les compétences. Notre article se veut d'abord une intervention théorique dans le débat sur les compétences, mais qui prend racine dans une préoccupation très concrète : les compétences requises dans le domaine des soins de santé. Using a feminist political economy lens, I argue that there is a need to change how we approach skills in political economy. Instead of focusing solely on labor processes that deskill and limit control (as much of the rich political economy literature does, in this journal and elsewhere), or on individualized formal learning (as much of the management literature does), we need to ask what prevents people from developing and using the skills they need for their work, and how time can be factored into skill assessment. The argument is theoretical, but grows out of a practical concern with skills in health care.

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Two Hands for the Clock: Changing Patterns in the Gendered Division of Labour in the Home

Cited by 28 publications

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Feminist Insight on Gendered Work: New Directions in Research on Women and Entrepreneurship

Feminist Insight on Gendered Work: New Directions in Research on Women and Entrepreneurship

The China Challenge : Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century

Puzzling Skills: Feminist Political Economy Approaches

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