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ions, a characteristic that encouraged the women studied to take on responsibility for household management. Alternatively, perhaps the organization of the domestic economy encouraged the women in the study to develop expertise in ‘ahead-of-time’ appliances as a result of their responsibility for household management. The data on oven timers and VCRs may offer the best suggestion of the underlying factors. While both can be programmed for ‘aheadof-time’ tasks that require very similar cognitive processes, there were significant gender differences in terms of which were found easier. Women found ovens easier to program than men (7.1/10 for women, 1/10 for the one man who responded, with 10 = easiest); men found VCRs easier (6.6/10 for men, 4.5/10 for women, with 10 easiest). Given that these tasks have similar cognitive complexity and structure, and given that the men’s scores for VCRs were so similar to women’s scores for ovens, perhaps it is social roles that drive who programs what, rather than any inherent cognitive differences between men and women. This study suggests programming patterns for appliances of different types are gendered, and that these patterns have
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