ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the study of children in families in which both the responsibility for income production and the household division of labor is actually post-gendered. It examines children whose parents deliberately reject gender stratification in the family, and who consciously divide their household labor without regard for traditional gender-based roles. Sociologists have only rarely- and quite recently- studied children's gender. When children are studied, in both sociology and psychology, the predominant questions center around the ways in which children learn to be boys or girls. Children who live in gendered societies do, no doubt, develop gender schema and code themselves as well as the world around them in gendered terms. Sociologists have begun to recognize that there are multiple masculinities and femininities, but most of society still wholly adopt and enforce a simple dichotomy. These children's actions challenge the existing gender structure of society in that they reject the dichotomy.
