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This book offers a unique look into how couples manage paid employment, housework and childcare. The author explores how employment structures, policies and practices intersect with individual attitudes to either reinforce or challenge gender inequalities in the domestic sphere through the 'doing' and 'undoing' of gender.

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9781529224962

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“Couples at Work is one of the most rigorously and generously researched books I have read in over a decade on gender divisions and relations of paid work, unpaid care work and household work. Emily Christopher’s thoughtfully designed longitudinal and creative qualitative research study with 25 UK heterosexual couples highlights gendered dynamics and challenges in everyday practices, identities and attitudes to paid work and unpaid work within contexts of poorly resourced childcare, parental leave and flexible work policies. This book beautifully demonstrates the power of nuanced methodological and theoretical approaches that address the complex, moral, cognitive and emotional relationalities involved in who does what and why.” Andrea Doucet, Brock University “Apt, timely evidence detailing how couples combine paid employment and child care - essential insight for parents, employers, policy makers and scholars.’ Lynn Jamieson, University of Edinburgh “Christopher offers a fine-grained analysis of how parents navigate gendered moral pressures of paid and unpaid work, with particular attention to whether and how working in the private or public sector matters. A must read!” Katherine Twamley, University College London

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Emily Christopher is lecturer in Sociology and Policy at Aston University.

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