Sexual Division of LaborPapers

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.

This foundational chapter develops the concept of the feminist standpoint by integrating Marxist theory with feminist epistemology. Hartsock argues that women's experiences - particularly in domestic labor and social reproduction - offer a privileged epistemic position from which to critique dominant knowledge systems and capitalist structures.

Paola Tabet examines how unequal control of tools organizes gendered labor, technical authority and dependence.

Kergoat challenges labor sociology’s male default, connecting factory management, household time and union demands rather than treating gender as a secondary variable.