ABSTRACT
One argument that has run consistently through this work is that with more complex, detailed and dynamic presentations of family and domestic experience, the significance of the latter for explanations of employment patterns and positions can be more appropriately identified. The use of gender differentiated models of explanations of work experience has been argued to ignore variations in women’s and men’s relations to employment, and to give less attention to how both domestic and employment experiences structure perceptions of employment for women and men. The benchmark of this portrait is the family filter: the assumption that, contrary to men, women’s experiences of employment are filtered through, and even overshadowed by, their family experience. The most frequent selections made by people who discriminated between family and employment were those that included employment and excluded the family. Compared with the component-wage and full-wage women, full-wage men did have perceptions of imbalance with respect to their employment.
