Changes to domestic divisions of labor have been widely documented, but some tasks seem particularly resistant to change. Using the lens of ‘doing gender’, this article draws on interviews with 25 heterosexual working parent British couples who produced a ‘household portrait’ of their division of labor. It examines how they explain men’s continuing responsibility for ‘man-typed’ domestic tasks and why this is so resistant to change. Although men’s ‘gatekeeping’ of these tasks is consequential for the overall household division of labor, there is relatively little opposition from their women partners. This gatekeeping reproduces gendered meanings of ‘man-typed’ tasks and enables both men and women to ‘do gender’ while supporting their image of a ‘sharing’ couple.

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“这是男人的工作”：在家务劳动分工中做好性别和男性把关

国内劳动分工的变化已被广泛记录，但有些任务似乎特别难以改变。本文利用“性别行动”的视角，采访了 25 对英国异性恋工作父母夫妇，他们为他们的劳动分工绘制了一幅“家庭肖像”。它研究了他们如何解释男人对“男人型”家务劳动的持续责任，以及为什么这种责任如此难以改变。尽管男性对这些任务的“看门”对于整个家庭劳动分工至关重要，但女性伴侣的反对相对较少。这种看门人再现了“男性型”任务的性别含义，使男性和女性能够“做性别”，同时支持他们“共享”情侣的形象。