9. Domestic Work

1. Consider the view that domestic work is as alienating as factory work.

2. Does technology reduce the time spent on domestic work?

3. Examine the strengths and weaknesses of the symmetrical family thesis.

4. Explain the apparent reluctance of husbands to share domestic work equally.

5. Why is domestic outsourcing only a limited solution to the domestic work load problem?

6. Assess Gershuny's theory of lagged adaptation.

7. To what extent and why has domestic work remained highly gendered and unequal?