This is a blog about men and women engaged in online jobs employment for pay or profit. The focus is on gender and its influence on the type of work individuals do as well as their work processes and outcomes. Because of the spatial link between these workers and their families' living activities, a study of online jobs provides a unique opportunity to study paid-work and family interaction with a special emphasis on gender differences and similarities.

Traditionally, women dominated the online jobs front as the so-called breadmakers with major responsibilities for child care and household chores; men were mainly considered to be breadwinners, providing the money income for the family. Increasingly, however, men and women engage in similar patterns of paid employment activity. online jobs employment seems an ideal situation to explore whether or not the traditional gender division of labor still influences what men and women do for pay and family as well as the outcomes of their efforts. For example, do online jobs -workers take on different types of employment than on-site workers, or do they tend to follow the same gender conventions when choosing online jobs?

How do the motivations for choosing online jobs -based employment differ from the motivations for choosing on-site employment? Do online jobs -workers manage their work in the same way as on-site workers? Is being a online jobs -worker associated with a different division of family and household labor, or different online jobs -management practices, from the patterns associated with onsite workers? Are outcomes, such as economic rewards, human capital development, or "psychic income," different for online jobs -workers? And, importantly, what are the differences and similarities associated with the gender of the worker both among online jobs -workers and in comparison to on-site workers in all of these areas just mentioned? In a sense, the question becomes, does gender make a difference? Is online jobs -based employment an arena where conventional gender ideologies are challenged, contested, negotiated, and changed? Or, given the linkages of family, household, and employment to other social spheres, are the prevailing patterns and gender ideologies of a society or culture reproduced in online jobs -based employment? Another way to frame the question might be, how is gender constructed in online jobs -based employment and what are the implications for all the people and all the levels of society concerned?