10/10 Athenaeum at 1pm - Laundry or Lawn Mowing? Housework as Gender Performance in Same-Sex Couples by Nicole Civettinii

Please join us at 1pm on Wednesday, October 10 for our Athenaeum titled  Laundry or Lawn Mowing? Housework as Gender Performance in Same-Sex Couples  presented by Nicole Civettini, Assistant Professor, Sociology.

Professor Civettini will discuss her test of an original theory that incorporated the idea of normative vs. non-normative gender displays with the "gender performance" approach and a trend toward gender liberalism among lesbians and gay men. In a survey of 244 members of same-sex couples, people who expressed high levels of gender-normative traits (femininity for lesbians, masculinity for gay men) did not use housework as way to create a gendered identity. However, women who expressed greater masculinity did a smaller share of housework than other women, and men who expressed greater femininity contributed a larger share of housework relative to other men in the sample.