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The persistence of traditional gender norms in housework
Ian Sinclair talks to PROFESSOR ANNE McMUNN about why the burden of unpaid domestic work is so unequally divided between men and women
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FROM the Everyday Sexism Project, to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s bestselling essays and the #MeToo movement, there has been a huge upsurge in feminist activism in recent years.
However, while the topic of unpaid domestic work, aka housework, was a key concern of second wave feminism in the 1970s, it seems to be largely ignored by contemporary mainstream feminism.
In an attempt to get a handle on the issue, Ian Sinclair asked Anne McMunn, professor of social epidemiology at University College London, about her new co-authored article Gender Divisions of Paid and Unpaid Work in Contemporary UK Couples, published in the journal Work, Employment and Society.
Ian Sinclair (IS): What does the academic evidence tell us about who does unpaid domestic work?
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