RT Journal Article
T1 'The house belongs to both’: undoing the gendered division of housework
A1 Domínguez-Folgueras, Marta
A1 Jurado-Guerrero, Teresa
A1 Botía-Morillas, Carmen
A1 Amigot-Leache, Patricia
K1 Gender equality
K1 Domestic work
K1 Division of labour
K1 Families and work
K1 Work-Life balance
AB This article studies 28 dual-income Spanish childless couples who were undoing gender in routine domestic work. We understand ‘undoing gender’ as defined by Deutsch [(2007). Undoing gender. Gender & Society, 21, 106–127, p. 122]: ‘social interactions that reduce gender difference’. The dual-earner couples came from different socio-economic backgrounds and were interviewed in four different Spanish towns in 2011. The analysis shows that resources in a wide sense, time availability, external help, ideas about fairness, and complex gender attitudes are key interdependent factors that can weave together to form different configurations leading to a non-mainstream division of housework. All configurations were based on principles of gender equality: some couples found it fair to have a 50/50 division of domestic work, others a 50/50 division of all work (paid and unpaid); and a third group showed conflicts in practice. These couples’ ways of undoing gender illustrate the external, individual, and couple circumstances under which spouses are able to achieve a non-traditional construction of unpaid work.
PB Taylor and Francis online
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/25023
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/25023
LA en
NO Domínguez-Folgueras, Marta; Jurado-Guerrero, Teresa; Botía-Morillas; Carmen & Amigot-Leache, Patricia (2017). ‘The house belongs to both’: undoing the gendered division of housework. Community, Work and Family , 20 (4): 424-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2016.1192525. ISSN 1366-8803 (Print), 1469-3615
NO Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Departamento de Sociología.
NO Sciences PO
NO Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
NO Universidad Pública de Navarra
DS RIO
RD May 8, 2026