This article examines the "work and gender" question through the relationship between housework and paid work, considering that one of the key factors to explain the unequal insertion of men and women in the labor market is related to the issue of reconciliation between work and family life. Despite being a preliminary study, the author intends to develop a research hypothesis to be examined in further studies on the nature of the central role that the work usually plays in the lives of women. Thus, the paper aims to contribute in some way to the advancement of researches on the complex relationships between career and family life.
Housework; Paid work; Gender relations; Career and family life; Temporality
