scholarly journals Changes in US Parents’ Domestic Labor During the Early Days of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Carlson ◽  
Richard J. Petts ◽  
Joanna R. Pepin
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2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Beverly Maria Francis ◽  
Dr. Cheryl Davis

Since the advent of postfeminist culture in the 1990s, women’s desire has often been described as wanting to return to a domestic, feminine lifestyle in which women are portrayed as “keen to re-embrace the title of housewife and re-experience the joys of a ‘new femininity’” (Genz and Brabon, 2009: 57). In movie and TV programs such as Footballer's Wives (2002-2006), The Real Housewives franchise, and Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), the rebranding of domestic labor as a place of enjoyment and liberty expressed through popular culture rejects feminist worries about tedious, repetitive, and exploitative housework.


1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-160
Author(s):  
Nancy Folbre

Married women’s entrance into the market economy proceeded at a slow but steady pace between 1890 and 1910. That, at least, is the impression given by conventional census measures of the percentage with “gainful occupations,” which practically doubled in both the United States as a whole and in the heavily industrialized state of Massachusetts (see Table 1). This impression is misleading on at least two counts. Declines in self-reporting and enumerator bias may have overstated the increase in married women with gainful occupations. More important, dwindling opportunities for informal market activities, such as industrial homework, provision of services to boarders, and participation in a family farm or enterprise, may have countervailed increases in formal market participation. In Massachusetts, at least, married women’s specialization in non-market domestic labor probably increased.


Social Forces ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 1103-1119 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Silver ◽  
F. Goldscheider

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedes Pedrero Nieto

La discusión sobre la importancia del trabajo doméstico no remunerado tiene ya varios decenios, así como sus efectos sobre la participación en el trabajo extradoméstico, particularmente porque frena a las mujeres para realizar actividades destinadas al mercado. Sin embargo, fue apenas en la última década cuando en el contexto internacional comenzaron a realizarse esfuerzos sistemáticos para hacer visible y medir el trabajo doméstico y registrarlo en las estadísticas oficiales. Las fronteras entre lo que se considera doméstico y extradoméstico no han sido estáticas, lo cual obliga a hacer una revisión conceptual permanente y a diseñar metodologías que permitan cuantificar la valoración económica del trabajo doméstico. En este artículo se emprende, primero, un recorrido conceptual, para finalizar con la presentación de algunos resultados obtenidos para México por la Encuesta Nacional sobre Uso del Tiempo de 2002. Se muestra la participación diferencial de hombres y mujeres en los dos tipos de trabajo, y se destaca sobre todo las discrepancias en el tiempo dedicado al trabajo doméstico por los hombres y por las mujeres. Finalmente se presenta un ejercicio de medición para demostrar que no se trata de una contribución marginal, pues su valor supera al de varios sectores económicos. AbstractDiscussion of the importance of unpaid domestic labor, as well as its effects on participation in extra-domestic labor, particularly the way it discourages women from undertaking activities aimed at the market, dates back several decades. It was not until the last decade, however, that systematic efforts began to be made in the international context to make domestic labor visible and measure it in official statistics. The borders between the domestic and the extra-domestic have not been static, which calls for a continuous review of the concepts used together with the search for methodologies to enable one to assess the economic value of domestic labor. This article begins with a conceptual review and ends with the presentation of some of the results obtained for Mexico in the 2002 National Survey on Time Use. The survey reveals men and women’s varying degrees of participation in the two types of work, highlighting the differences in the amount of time spent on domestic labor. The article ends with a measurement exercise to show that domestic labor is by no means a marginal contribution, since its value exceeds that of several economic sectors.


Author(s):  
Andreas Petrossiants

Considering the literature on feminist militancy and “domestic labor” of the late 1960s and early 70s from the perspective of Western visual culture, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles is undoubtedly a central figure. Surprisingly, however, her works have rarely been read through the lens of the international Wages for Housework movement. This essay proposes to read Ukeles’ cultural activism and work through the writing and political organizing of Silvia Federici, who also distanced herself from previously dominant and at times sectarian feminisms to articulate a pointedly (post-)autonomist feminism as a political project. The author is trying to grasp and describe the truly radical and imperative position that Ukeles activated, and continues to “maintain.”


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
Barbara Grandi
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