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The Gender Division of Labor and the Reproduction of Female Disadvantage

Toward an Integrated Theory

JANET SALTZMAN CHAFETZ

University of Houston

A theory of the major mechanisms that sustain and reproduce systems of gender stratification is presented. The central support mechanism is the gender division of labor, within both the family and the wider society. Because of it, men gain superior resource and definitional power, which enable them to maintain the gender status quo regardless of women's wishes. Elite men create dominant social definitions that, together with the gender division of labor, contribute to gender differentiation. This results in women usually choosing that which they would otherwise be constrained to do, thereby legitimating the system and allowing men to refrain from exercising their coercive potential.

Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 9, No. 1, 108-131 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/019251388009001006
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