How does feminist theorizing shape the consideration of work from home jobs? As Osmond and Thorne determined:
Feminist scholarship on the historical development of the public-private dichotomy offers scholars a wealth of theorizing and research on the complex interrelationships between family and economy. In the process, feminists redefine social scientists' concepts both of work (traditionally defined in terms of men's occupations and organizations) and of family (traditionally defined in terms of "the" nuclear, middleclass, American model and "sex roles"). In summary: feminist scholarship (1) focuses on the organization of work within and outside of families as shaped both by a patriarchal gender system and by a capitalist economic system; (2) refutes the family-linked stereotypes of the man as sole provider and breadwinner and the woman as dependent and economically unproductive (this is neither a useful ideal--it embeds women's subordination--nor a description of the actual lives of most people); (3) demonstrates that the locus of women's subordination is not just in the economy nor just in the family, that is, "separate spheres" do not exist in women's (or men's) daily experiences; and (4) recognizes a societal gender system that is autonomous with regard to any specific institution yet links all major institutions.
 
Given the many overlapping spheres or institutions that influence work from home jobs (especially for family businesses [ Hennon et al., 1998]), it seems that the work from home jobs is a prime location to find how gender shapes all aspects of labor, both paid and unpaid, more visible and less visible.

Gender is not absolutely tied to biological sex. Rather, femininity and masculinity (what it means to be a woman or a man, or of one gender or the other) are understood within feminist scholarship as contested, negotiated, and constructed via a magnitude of face-to-face transactions and more macro-dynamics (e.g., policies, laws, media, religions) within specific sociohistorical locations (work from home jobs). Biological sex (e.g., chromosomes, anatomical and reproductive physiological characteristics) is distinguished from cultural gender, which can be defined as all the cultural phenomena associated with biological sex (work from home jobs). Gender is understood as a social construction that organizes one's life and the people in it. Gender is also understood as something people do in their daily lives. "'Doing gender' is the everyday interactional process of constructing and reconstructing differences between women and men, girls and boys, and using these differences to create a male-female polarity that devalues women" (work from home jobs). Gender and the associated expectations for appropriate behavior acutely influence both men and women.