01695nam a22001577a 4500 516244 516244 210220b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Daminger, Allison 24281 De-gendered processes, gendered outcomes: How egalitarian couples make sense of non-egalitarian household practices American Sociological Review 85(5), Oct, 2020: p.806-829 Despite widespread support for gender-egalitarianism, men’s and women’s household labor contributions remain strikingly unequal. This article extends prior research on barriers to equality by closely examining how couples negotiate contradictions between their egalitarian ideals and admittedly non-egalitarian practices. Data from 64 in-depth interviews with members of 32 different-sex, college-educated couples show that respondents distinguish between labor allocation processes and outcomes. When they understand the processes as gender-neutral, they can write off gendered outcomes as the incidental result of necessary compromises made among competing values. Respondents “de-gender” their allocation process, or decouple it from gender ideology and gendered social forces, by narrowing their temporal horizon to the present moment and deploying an adaptable understanding of constraint that obscures alternative paths. This de-gendering helps prevent spousal conflict, but it may also facilitate behavioral stasis by directing attention away from the inequalities that continue to shape domestic life. - Reproduced Gender, Family, Household labor, Egalitarianism 22709 American Sociological Review HOUSEHOLD LABOUR AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 390336 IIPA IIPA 2021-02-20 85(5), Oct, 2020: p.806-829 AR124340 2021-02-20 AR