Gender deal

Carlen’s term for the promise that women will receive psychological and material rewards from a male breadwinner in return for love and domestic labour.

In Carlen's explanation, the promise that women will receive psychological and material rewards from male breadwinners in return for love and domestic labour.

The gender deal offers psychological and material rewards from male breadwinners in return for women's love and domestic labour.

Carlen’s term for promised material and emotional rewards from a male breadwinner in return for women’s domestic labour and love.

Keep Carlen’s deals distinct: the class deal concerns rewards from work; the gender deal concerns rewards from fulfilling traditional family roles.

Carlen’s idea that women are encouraged to conform by the promise of emotional and financial rewards for fulfilling traditional roles as wives and mothers.

The gender deal promises emotional and financial rewards from family life in return for being a conventional wife and mother. Abuse, neglect or a lack of stable relationships and support can undermine this promise too.

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