Managing Time in Domestic Space: Home-Based Contractors and Household Work  

Oleh:

Osnowitz, Debra

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Gender and society; vol. 19 no. 01 (Feb. 2005), page 83-103.
Topik: flexibility; gender; gender salience; home-based work; household division of labor; nonstandard work; working time; family
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Much research shows that paid work performed at home supports a gendered division of household labor, leavingwomen disproportionately responsible for unpaid domestic work.For contract professionals, however, the flexibility to manage working time outside the constraints of a standard job allows both men and women to meld paid employment with household responsibilities. Interspersing paid and unpaid work, home-based contractors—both women and men—accommodate family needs. They arrange daily schedules to be available parents and household managers, and they develop longer-term career trajectories that allow adjustment over time. For women, however, long-standing notions of domesticity make such accommodation invisible, normative, and unremarkable. For men, in contrast, home-based contracting can create the space with which to challenge gender norms. For these home workers, therefore, the same arrangement simultaneously reinforces and resists conventional constructions of gender.

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