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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

What do you understand by gender-based domestic division of labour? Is it undergoing a change in the wake of increasing participation of women in formal employment? Clarify your answer with illustrations.

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  • Works and Economic Life

The gender-based domestic division of labour is the allocation of housework, care and household management by sex rather than by ability or availability. It makes cooking, cleaning and child and elder care "women's work", and earning and public representation "men's work". It is socially constructed and ties the private family to the labour market.

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