Sexual Division of Labor

Convention No. 177 recognizes paid production or services performed away from an employer’s premises, addressing organization, safety, remuneration and intermediary responsibility.

A Mie survey connects menstrual and menopausal difficulties with farm work, housework and support, using distinct denominators for each measure.

Mayumi Sato compares eight women’s trajectories to distinguish farm labor from management and examine learning, business change and family relations.

Babcock and colleagues separate volunteering, requests and acceptance to explain how organizationally useful work can become unequally allocated.

French tax data distinguish changes after separation from a matched counterfactual, tracing unequal earnings and the role of taxes and benefits.

Joan Acker shows how apparently neutral jobs presuppose workers freed from care, connecting organizational rules, interactions and embodied lives.

Monique Haicault examines factory workers’ schedules, homes and families to show mental load as the coordination of conflicting institutions.