Framing a Domain for Work and Family

Framing a Domain provides fascinating insights into why women choose to sell real estate and why they have come to dominate the profession. Based on in-depth interviews with women realtors carried out through the 1990s Carol Wharton's work places this white-collar service occupation within the larger context of women's lives. It offers a unique case study of the gendered practices that infuse the workplace and the ways women negotiate these practices to successfully 'weave' work with family obligations.