In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife's paid employment less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for breadwinning and the social construction of gender in their marriages.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: rethinking breadwinning; 2. Gender boundaries and the social construction of gender; 3. Employed wives' constructions of breadwinning; 4. Dual-earner husbands' constructions of breadwinning; 5. Collaborative constructions of gender: couples who agree about the breadwinning boundary; 6. Contested constructions of gender: couples who dfisagree about the breadwinning boundary; 7. Breadwinning and mothering: the relationship of gender boundaries: 8. Breadwinning and the web of gender; Appendix; References; Index.
