“...The Most Free From Objection ...” The Sexual Division of Labor and Women's Work in Nineteenth-Century England
指出，解释女性工作趋势时，除生育和技术变革外，还需考虑通过性别隔离控制性行为以维持人口秩序，并用十九世纪英国地区间私生率与性别隔离的相关性验证这一论点。
Most explanations of trends in women's work emphasize women's role in childbearing, along with technological and organizational changes in production. The explanations neglect an important factor: the need to control sexuality in order to secure demographic order. Segregated employment enabled almost all family members to work, while discouraging heterosexual intimacy. Nineteenth-century attitudes illustrate the anxiety felt when unrelated men and women worked together. The argument is tested by correlating regional variation in illegitimacy, as a measure of failed social control, with variation in sex segregation.