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    The learned gender distinction between women and men is rooted in women's predominance in mothering work.

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    • 1.Mothering work socializes children through the identities and relationships it enacts.
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    • 2.Women overwhelmingly perform mothering work.
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    • 3.The sexual division of infant care shapes different identity formation processes for boys and girls.
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    • 1.Cross-cultural anthropological data (Mead, Ortner) shows gender distinctions vary independently of who performs primary infant care.
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    • 2.If mothering causally produced gender distinctions, cultures with shared parenting would show convergent gender identities, but evidence is mixed.
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    • 1.Butler's performativity thesis holds that gender is constituted through repeated discursive acts and regulatory norms prior to any parenting arrangement.
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    • 2.If gender is discursively produced through institutions, language, and law, then mothering practices are themselves effects of gender ideology, not its root cause.
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    The socialist-feminist idea that there are two interlocking systems that structure gender and the economy, and thus are jointly responsible for male domination, has been developed in a psychological direction by the psychoanalytic school of feminist theorists. Particularly relevant to the question of women and work are the theories of Mitchell (1972, 1974), Kuhn and Wolpe (1978), Chodorow (1978, 1979, 1982) and Ruddick (1989). Mothering, or, taking care of babies and small children, as a type of
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    Women overwhelmingly perform mothering work.
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