Framing a Domain for Work and Family A Study of Women in Residential Real Estate Sales Work

by Wharton, Carol S.

• ISBN13: 9780739103678
• ISBN10: 0739103679
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-09
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Framing a Domain provides fascinating insights into why women choose to sell real estate and why they have come to dominate the profession. Based on in-depth interviews with women realtors, carried out through the 1990s, Carol Wharton's work places this white-collar service occupation within the larger context of women's lives. It offers a unique case study of the gendered practices that infuse the workplace, and the ways women negotiate these practices to successfully weave work with family obligations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(16)
Part One: Working Full-Time on Their Own Time: The Lure of Independent Contracting	17	(64)
The Nature of Real Estate Sales Work	19	(18)
Being a Realtor	37	(30)
Arranging the Workday	67	(14)
Part Two: The Home Is Still Their Domain: Women Work within and outside of Their Family Responsibilities	81	(54)
Homework: Women as Realtors, Wives, and Mothers	83	(18)
Real Estate Sales Work as Gender Work	101	(16)
Good Job/Bad Job; The Perks and Piques of Selling Houses	117	(18)
Conclusion	135	(8)
Appendix	143