Paid and Unpaid Housework and Social Inequality in Germany

Authors

  • Claudia Gather Berlin School of Economics

Keywords:

Employment (Economic theory), Labor supply, Paid domestic labor, Women - West Germany

Abstract

Concerning the division of paid and unpaid work there are a couple of differences in Germany between East and West, and between women and men. Data about labor force participation, income, and doing housework highlight those differences. To hire domestic worker is discussed under the aspect of social inequality between women.

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Author Biography

Claudia Gather, Berlin School of Economics

Claudia Gather is visiting professor at the Harriet Taylor Mill Institut of the FHW (Berlin School of Economics). Formerly she taught sociology and Sociology of Gender at the Technical University of Berlin, the Free University of Berlin, as a visiting professor at the University of Florida and at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main. She is one of the founders of the commercial CenterWeiberWirtschaft, the largest commercial complex in the Federal Republic of Germany for businesses started and run by women and she is an editor of the interdisciplinary feminist journal FeninistischeStudien. Her major fields of research and publication are gender and the division of work, women's work and paid informal work in private households.

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Published

2004-04-01

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 2 (2004): Special Issue: Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work

Section

Original Research

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