... men's earnings, even though they work longer hours. As drawing attention to a gendered division of labour, gendered constructs such as a male "breadwinner" and women who are primarily "housewife" -central to modern western definitions of masculinity, femininity, and capitalism- have been evoked at various times to support the interests of the state and the economy. Consequently, men are more likely to gain ... access to money, new skills, and technology, while women continue to be defined as dependents or subsistence producers. Women, hence, continue to be disadvantaged relative to men ...

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