Homework As Home Work: Mothers' Unpaid Educational Labour

Authors

  • Nancy Mandell York University
  • Robert Sweet Lakehead University

Keywords:

Homework, Mothers, Education

Abstract

Homework involvement represents one form of mothers' educational unpaid work that is absent in considerations of domestic labour. Using National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth survey data, we identify three homework trends that differentiate the homework activities of full-time employed mothers from the work of "at-home" mothers. We argue that these patterns reinforce class and gender divisions.

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Author Biographies

Nancy Mandell, York University

Nancy Mandell teaches sociology and women's studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario. She has just completed two qualitative studies: a SSHRC investigation of community-academic research relationships and an in-depth examination of the health, intimacy and work relationships of Canadian women in mid-life.

Robert Sweet, Lakehead University

Robert Sweet teaches Educational Psychology at Lakehead University, Sudbury, Ontario. His research interests and writing include family-school relationships, educational planning within families, children's school engagement processes, and post-secondary access policies.

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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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