Household work: When gender ideologies and practices interact

Shared Patterns of Daily Occupations among Parents of Children Aged 4–6 Years Old with Obesity

“…families' projects and where participation occurs (Mullan & Craig, 2009;Primeau, 2000aPrimeau, , 2000b. According to Primeau (2000a) families were considered to have traditional division of household work when women were responsible for over 60% of the household work, regardless of whether or not they participated in paid work outside of the home.…”

Theoretical perspectives of balance and the influence of gender ideologies

“…Primeau (2000a) found that the labour division of partners who share conventional gender ideology caused a gender struggle related to their power inequity. Even if partners' gender ideologies are compatible, reducing conflicts with a labour division, traditional gender ideology gives rise to power differences between partners, because a gender-based labour division may not allow women to earn as much as their male partners.…”

Reflections on Self in Qualitative Research: Stories of Family

“…Ultimately, as the researcher, I "decide whose stories (and quotes) to display and whose to ignore" (Hertz, 1996, p. 7). For example, my personal beliefs and values about equity in divisions of unpaid work in the home led me to juxtapose accounts from the men in my study who participated in traditional gender-based divisions with those who were nontraditional in that they shared the household work with their wives (Primeau 2000a(Primeau , 2000b. My agenda in doing so was not only to highlight multiple ways in which household work is divided, but also to demonstrate through these accounts some of the consequences of inequitable, gender-based divisions of unpaid work in the home for men's and women's relationships with each other as well as with their children.…”

“…Autoethnographers use iterative cycles of shifting their focus back and forth between social and cultural aspects of personal experience and introspective reflections on their personally engaged selves to explore the interplay between the cultural and the personal (Ellis & Bochner, 2000). For examples of autoethnographies, see Berger, 1997, Butler and Rosenblum, 1991, Ellingson, 1998, Ellis, 1993, Kiesinger, 1998, Norum, 2000, and Tillmann-Healy, 1996 This article will follow the style of the traditional reflexive account in that it frames the analysis and interpretation of findings from my research on work and play in families that have been published elsewhere (Primeau, 1998;Primeau, 2000a;Primeau, 2000b). Ten two-parent families (17 children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years) from the Los Angeles area participated in a qualitative research, multiple methods study (participant observation, intensive interview, questionnaire).…”