Title: Tupperware Parties and Work-Family: Why Women Sell to Women
Abstract: (This resource provides the lecture, suggested materials and discussion questions for the class activity described below.
I have used this activity when I teach Sociology of Families classes on the week on work
and families. I begin the class by discussing the different definitions of work, focusing on
gender definitions of how housework and care work are not considered real work in our
society. I then utilize Schor’s The Overworked American to talk about the time squeeze.
This leads into a discussion of women’s work in both situations of dual earner families
and single parents, also focusing on race and gender differentials in pay. We then
discuss the gendered nature of household work focusing on the notion that women are
still doing more. We then talk about the crisis in care work.
I then lecture on Smith and Nelson’s Working Hard and Making Do in terms of the
gendered nature of side or moonlighting work.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-04-26
Language: en
Type: article
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