ABSTRACT
Underemployment may be regarded as a form of disguised unemployment. A narrow definition of underemployment would relate primarily to hours worked in the wage economy. Even that definition creates conceptual problems, however. For example, should all persons working less than the normal hours of wage labor, usually taken as hill-time work, be regarded as underemployed? This approach endorses the "male breadwinner" model of participation as the "normal" mode and thus renders invisible the domestic labor provided by women to facilitate male employment.
