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| Author: | Pfau-Effinger, B. |
| Title: | Socio-historical paths of the male breadwinner model - an explanation of cross-national differences |
| Journal: | British Journal of Sociology
2004 : SEP, VOL. 55:3, p. 377-399 |
| Index terms: | Families Gender History Household economics |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It is often assumed that in the historical transformation to modern industrial society, the integration of women into the economy occurred everywhere as a three-phase process: in pre-modern societies, the extensive integration of women into societal production; after that, their wide exclusion with the shift to industrial society, and finally, their re-integration into paid work during the further course of modernization. Results from the author's own international comparative study of the historical development of the family and the economic integration of women have shown that this was decidedly not the case even for Western Europe. Hence the question emerges: why is there such historical variation in the development and importance of the housewife model of the male breadwinner family? In the paper, an explanation is presented. |
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