Knowra Domestic labor Domestic labor Domestic labor is work that maintains a household and cares for its members, performed by household members or paid workers. It includes tasks such as cooking, cleaning, childcare, and eldercare.
Unpaid work : Labor performed without direct monetary compensation. Much household maintenance and family care is unpaid, despite its economic value.
Division of labor : The allocation of tasks among people, groups, or institutions. Household members and hired workers divide domestic tasks in different ways.
Gross domestic product : A measure of the market value of final goods and services produced within an economy. GDP generally omits unpaid household services, making much domestic labor invisible in standard output measures.
Paid work : Work performed in exchange for wages, salary, or other monetary compensation. Domestic labor may be unpaid or paid, unlike the defining wage relation of paid work.
Care work : Labor that meets people’s physical, emotional, and developmental needs. Caregiving is a central part of domestic labor, from childcare to support for dependent adults.
Gender division of labor : The patterned assignment of different kinds of work to people by gender. Gender norms influence who is expected to cook, clean, earn income, or provide care.
Feminist economics : An approach to economics that examines how gender shapes economic activity and institutions. It challenges economic accounts that overlook unpaid household work and caregiving.
Informal economy : Economic activity that is not fully regulated, taxed, or recorded by formal institutions. Paid domestic work often takes place in private homes outside standard employment oversight.
Household production : The creation of goods and services within households for their own use. Cooking, cleaning, and repairs produce services that households would otherwise need to obtain elsewhere.
Second shift : The unpaid household and caregiving work many employed people perform after paid work. It describes the additional domestic workload that can follow a paid workday.
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