What counts as work? How does gender ideology shape what we consider work? What is the relationship between expectations of gender, women's domestic household labor, and the kinds of work women tend to do in the workforce?

Apply the family-based and family-wage economy to your own experience growing up. Which best describes your family life? This part should be the bulk of your post. Then briefly describe your mother, or other maternal figure, or the person who most closely raised you as a child and find out about her/his work history. If they worked outside the home, who took care of you while they worked? If you can interview them, ask them to describe what their experience was like.