Working Time as Gendered Time

Carmen Sirianni and Cynthia Negrey

Feminist Economics, 2000, vol. 6, issue 1, 59-76

Abstract: Household-labor time and market-labor time are organized in part through the social structure of unequal gender relations. Generally, women do more household work than men, women's market work is undervalued, and the greatest rewards for market work accrue to men. The career model of employment is biased in favor of men who have few household responsibilities. Even noncareer seniority-sensitive job paths assume male incumbency with limited competition from household responsibilities. In this article we discuss the gendered underpinnings of the organization of time in contemporary Western society by critically examining household-labor time and the masculine models of career and noncareer employment. In addition to the important feminist goal of pay equity, we argue for a feminist politics of time that promotes alternative work-time arrangements for women and men to foster gender equality in the market and at home.

Keywords: Work-time; Alternative Work-time Arrangements; Household-labor Time; Market-labor Time; Gender And Work-time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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