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.

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

1. Paid Employment and Domestic Divisions of Labour: An Introduction

2. Policies and Practices

3. Mothering and Paid Employment

4. Fathering and Paid Employment

5. Who Does the Childcare?

6. Who Does the Housework?

7. Conclusions