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    It is not the case that The learned gender distinction between women and men is rooted in women's predominance in mothering work.

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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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    • 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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