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Couples at Work

Negotiating Paid Employment, Housework, and Childcare

Emily Christopher (Aston University)

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English
Bristol University Press
26 September 2025
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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Imprint:   Bristol University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781529224962
ISBN 10:   1529224969
Series:   Sociology of Children and Families
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified
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

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

Reviews for Couples at Work: Negotiating Paid Employment, Housework, and Childcare

“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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