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Division of labor occurs not only in the formal workplaces of the world, but also in the informal spheres of work. Domestic duties are often sharply divided by gender, with women commanding the bulk of domestic chores, duties, roles, and corresponding positions of power. The power of women in the domestic sphere is limited, though, confined to that realm and not transferable to the public domain. Men's power in the public, political, and economic dimensions is far more transferable. Therefore, women's power and influence in households is distinct from the power and influence of men in the economic and political spheres. Women remain marginalized in public and formal positions of power.
In societies in which the public and private divide is less clear, and when there are more blurred lines between the public and private domains, women do enjoy a higher overall status in the society ("Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds"). When the public and private spheres are sharply divided, women are relatively isolated not only from the "outside" world but also from each other. Their power is also restricted to the domestic dimension, conferring a great deal of authority on the men in those women's lives due in part to lack of access to other social and hierarchical models. In societies in which public and private are woven together, women have higher status partly because they are able...
The division between the public and private dimensions can become further blurred in situations like marital infidelity. As Parikh points out, one of the more unusual consequences of the AIDS epidemic in Uganda has been a shift in gender roles in the home with women publically shaming their wayward husbands because of their responsibility in spreading sexually transmitted infections.
From the vantage point of the home, it is easy to see how kinship and gender become mutually constructed. Gender roles are most obviously linked to the unique reproductive role of women, but the relationship between motherhood and gender roles is not necessarily a causal one. A whole construct of norms and roles becomes encoded in the society. Boys are raised differently from girls, and are taught to distance themselves from domestic duties early in their lives as they grow up and try to establish themselves as young men. Female children, on the other hand, remain tied to the domestic sphere and are given increased social status in their households simply by growing older. The boys need to "learn to be men," involving rites of passage that allow them entry into the public sphere ("Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds"). Of course, women do…
References
Parikh, Shanti. "From 'Private' Affairs to 'Public' Scandals.'"
Townshend, Nicholas. "Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women."
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