Defining Work

Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural Clergy

By: Muriel Mellow

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eText | 24 November 2006

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Based on interviews with forty rural Protestant clergy, Mellow argues that male and female clergy challenge gendered definitions of work by focusing on obligation, context, visibility, and time. She also considers how clergy's work is shaped by the rural setting, arguing that we must consider how work is "placed" as well as gendered.