“You are not excused from cooking”: Peasants and the gender division of labor in Pakistan
研究巴基斯坦两个村庄四类农民家庭内部的性别分工,发现女性承担了不成比例的家务劳动,且家庭经济改善反而增加了女性的工作负担,这种分工受当地主流意识形态影响但并非没有争议。
This paper provides quantitative evidence of a gender division of labor within the households of four peasant classes living in two villages in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The gender division of labor results in a disproportionate share of total household work being performed by women. Further, the paper demonstrates that an improvement in the economic status of households leads to increased work demands being placed upon women. The gender division of labor is an explicit function of the dominant ideology of the area. However, such dominance does not go uncontested.